Research Catalog

Title

Women in the superintendency : discarded leadership / Joyce A. Dana, Diana M. Bourisaw.

Author

Dana, Joyce A., 1940-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bourisaw, Diana, 1956-

Description

xv, 249 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Women school superintendents > United States
• School management and organization > United States
• Sex discrimination in education > United States
• School management and organization
• Sex discrimination in education
• Women school superintendents
• Diskriminierung
• Frau
• Schulaufsicht
• Schulleiterin
• United States
• USA

Note

• "Published in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-249).

Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Social justice: 100-plus years of effort -- Voter equity -- Workplace equity -- The glass ceiling -- Social justice -- Case study: delayed gratification -- Chapter questions -- Challenges faced by women superintendents -- Gender -- Sexism -- Discrimination -- Gender structuring -- Quality preparation -- Access to leadership positions -- Case study: she may be smart, but can she balance a budget? -- Chapter questions -- Sociocultural, political, and religions idiologies -- Sociocultural ideology -- Observed behavioral regularities -- Recognizing group norms -- Identifying espoused values -- Formal philosophy -- Identifying the "rules of the game" -- Climate -- Embedded skills --

ISBN

• 1578863740
• 9781578863747
• 1578863759
• 9781578863754

LCCN

• 2005023530
• 9781578863747
• 9781578863754

OCLC

• ocm61295862
• 61295862
• SCSB-8904676

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library