Women Leading School Systems Uncommon Roads to Fulfillment

Most published research on the superintendency has failed to examine the voices of female superintendents. Today, white males account for approximately 85% of superintendents, rendering the female presence in the profession almost nonexistent. Women Leading School Systems, commissioned by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), provides a historical overview of women in top leadership position's. This study examines what drives some female educators to accept the challenge of becoming a superintendent and what drives others to remain in middle management. The authors also profile a number of women who have spent their lives at the top of the school system. This comprehensive book is the only national study entirely dedicated to women's leadership. Book jacket.

C. Cryss Brunner, Ph.D., is associate professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota Margaret Grogan is professor and chair of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia