Who Should Be Our Leader? Examining Female Representation in the Principalship across Geographic Locales in Texas Public Schools

Autor/inn/en	Fuller, Edward J.; Pendola, Andrew; LeMay, Marie
Titel	Who Should Be Our Leader? Examining Female Representation in the Principalship across Geographic Locales in Texas Public Schools
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Rural Education, 34 (2018) 4, (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-0670
Schlagwörter	Principals; Women Administrators; Females; Public Schools; Elementary Schools; Middle Schools; High Schools; Geographic Regions; Personnel Selection; Rural Areas; Urban Areas; Suburbs; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Administrator Effectiveness; Role Models; Gender Differences; Barriers; Recruitment; Institutional Characteristics; Statistical Analysis; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Principal; Schulleiter; Weibliche Führungskraft; Weibliches Geschlecht; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; High school; Oberschule; Personalauswahl; Personalentscheidung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Urban area; Stadtregion; Einzugsbereich; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; Identifikationsfigur; Geschlechterkonflikt; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	Since the 1970s, there has been keen interest in examining gender representation in leadership positions across various areas of employment, including K-12 education. Indeed, there have been long-standing concerns about the percentage of women principals. Few studies, however, have examined the percentages of women principals at different schooling levels (elementary, middle, and high schools) and across different geographic locales. In this study, we rely on 23 years of employment data for Texas public schools to examine the percentage of employed principals and newly hired principals who were women by school level and geographic locale. We also employ logistic regression to identify the independent effect of a school being located in a rural area on the odds of a school hiring a woman to be principal. We find that schools in all locales evidence an increase in hiring women as principals--particularly during the 1990s. We also find schools located in rural areas--both inside and outside metropolitan statistical areas--were less likely than schools located in large cities and large suburbs to employ a woman principal and hire a woman to fill a vacancy in the principalship. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Penn State University College of Education, Center on Rural Education and Communities. 310B Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802. Tel: 814-863-2031; Web site: http://www.jrre.psu.edu/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01