Women Leading Education Across the Continents-Overcoming the Barriers is the third collection of research about and stories of women leading education on every continent in the world. Internationally recognized scholars and practitioners offer a research-based conversation and systematic collaborative inquiry in exploring the status of women in educational leadership. Their work invites global policy development highlighting women's educational leadership as a critical social justice issue. The array of topics this volume includes are gender status and educational leadership, challenges and barriers for women leaders, confronting the barriers, leading in challenging contexts, and deconstructing the discourse on gendered leadership. This compelling book offers food for the intellect and rage for the belly that impels forward the moral imperative of women leading education internationally.
Foreword: Becoming the Beacon Helen Sobehart, United States Acknowledgments Elizabeth C. Reilly and Quirin J. Bauer Prologue: I'm Not Going to Take This Sitting Down: The Use and Misuse of Feminist Standpoint Theory in Women's Educational Leadership Research Charol Shakeshaft, United States Section 1: Gender Status and Educational Leadership Section 1 Editor - Rachel McNae 1.Section I Overview: Gender Status and Educational Leadership Jacqueline Oram-Sterling 2.The American School Superintendent: Women and the Superintendency Noelle M. Ellerson, United States 3.The Gender Gap in Academia: The Case of Cyprus Maria Eliophotou Menon, Deana Charalambidou-Solomi, and Mary Koutselini, Cyprus 4.'Breadwinners' and 'Homemakers': How Constructions of Masculinities affect Women's Progression in Leadership Pontso Moorosi, United Kingdom 5.An Investigation of Gender Differences in Teachers' Communications Apostolia Beka, Greece 6.Where are All the Women Superintendents?: A Case Study of Pennsylvania, USA, Jill Sperandio, USA Section 2: Challenges and Barriers for Women Leaders Section 2 Editor Anjale Welton 7.Section 2 Overview: The equal opportunity policy functions - with which strategies, under which circumstances and in which period of time? Susanne Gruber 8.Leadership Perspectives from a New Generation of Women Leaders: Balancing Acts Continue Whitney Sherman Newcomb and Margaret Grogan, United States 9.Why Do Women Leave the Superintendency? Kerry Robinson, United States 10.Transforming the Field? Scholarship of Women in Educational Administration Rhonda Mcclellan, Dana Christman, and Adrienne E. Hyle, United States 11.Barriers to Leadership and Challenges faced by female Heads in Educational Institutions in Uganda Alice Kagoda, Uganda 12.What Kind of Times Are These?: The Mystery of Sexual Harassment in the Post-Liberal Feminism Era Catherine Marshall, Brooke Midkiff, Stephanie Galloway, and Keren Dalyot, United States Section 3: Confronting the Barriers Section 3 Editor Kerry Robinson 13.Section 3 Overview: Confronting the Barriers of Women Leaders around the World 1.Esther Sui-Chu Ho, China 14.Empowering Female Faculty in Ghana's Public Universities: Mentoring - a Door Opener in the University of Education, Winneba and University of Cape Coast, Ghana 14.Joyce Wilson-Tagoe, Ghana 15.Organizational Development by Fostering Young Academic Talents with Gender Mainstreaming 14.Quirin J. Bauer, Germany 16.Female Graduate Students (Re)Define Mentoring in Educational Leadership: Results from a Survey 14.Anjale Welton, Katherine Cumings Mansfield, and Pei-Ling Lee, United States 17.Talking About Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class During Training of Public Teachers in Sao Paulo, Brazil 14.Rosangela Malachias, Brazil Section 4: Leading in Challenging Contexts Section 4 Editor Diane Reed 18.Section 4 Overview: Leading in Challenging Contexts Linda Lambert 19.Women of K-12 and Higher Educational Leadership in Afghanistan: A Comparison of Progress Elizabeth C. Reilly, United States 20.The Role of Women Leaders in a World of Terrorism and Natural Disasters Abida Mahmood, Pakistan 21.Women Leading Schools in Challenging Contexts Jane Rarieya, Tanzania 22.One sister's story of school leadership in the Philippines Michelle Colay, Philippines Section 5: Deconstructing the Discourse on Gendered Leadership Section 5 Editor Katherine Cumings Mansfield 23.Section 5 Overview: Deconstructing the Discourse on Gendered Leadership Jane Rarieya 24.Theorizing Women Leaders' Experience: Caught in the Web Jacky Lumby, United Kingdom 25.Where Does the Power Lie? Gender, Leadership, and Positional Power Saeeda Shah, United Kingdom 26.Applying the Leader Resilience Profile (R) to Compare and Contrast Leader Resilience by Gender Diane Reed, Bruce Blaine, Jerry L. Patterson, United States 27.Learning Gendered Leadership: A Discursive Struggle Kay Fuller, United Kingdom Epilogue Elizabeth C. Reilly & Quirin J. Bauer About the Editors About the Section Editors About the Contributors Index
