The status and satisfaction of women in higher education administration are addressed in 29 articles. Contents include the following: Why Don't Women Aspire to Leadership Positions in Education (Sylvia-Lee Tibbets); Training Women for Administration (Rae Andre and Mary I. Edwards); Kindergarten: The Training Ground for Women in Administration (Mary Ellen Verheyden-Hilliard); Performance of Women Principals (Andrew Fishel and Janice Pottker); Our Dwindling National Resource: Women School Administrators (Laurine E. Fitzgerald); Upward Job Mobility for Women in Elementary Education (Jane K. MacDonald); Sexual Discrimination in School Administration Opportunities (Edward J. Van Meir); Interest and Involvement of Women in University Governance (Julia K. Muller); Job Satisfaction of Women Administrators in Higher Education (Mary Elizabeth Reeves); Women College and University Presidents (Martha McGee); Women as Academic Administrators in the Age of Affirmative Action (Marian Lief Palley); How Do Women Administrators View Job Satisfaction and Discrimination (Judith Cochran); A Leap of Faith: Or How To Beat the Middle Management Syndrome (Barbara Baxter Pillinger); Roadblocks to Women's Careers in Educational Administration (Gregory C. Coffin and Ruth B. Ekstrom); and Women Presidents; The First Fifty Years (Josephine Johnson and Charles R. O'Brien). (SW)