Women have made significant advances in executive management within the workforce. Throughout the decades, women are making slow progress into the executive management echelon within private sector companies, secular colleges, and universities. However, there has been little to no progress in attaining executive positions within Christian post-secondary educational institutions. This underrepresentation may persist due to a variety of gender stereotypes and roles that women employed in Christian post-secondary colleges and universities encounter. Clark and Estes's knowledge, motivation, and organizational gap analysis model was applied to explore the experiences of male and female executive managers who hold leadership positions in Christian post-secondary institutions and who were appointed to serve on an assurance task force. Eight task force members were interviewed to explore their experiences and to provide insight on the lack of women holding executive management positions within Bible colleges and universities. Findings suggest that organizational influences play the biggest role in preventing women to succeed within executive leadership in organizations with strict patriarchal structures and hierarchies. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]