Female superintendents across the nation comprise approximately 27% of the population (Finnan et al., 2015), while female teachers account for approximately 75% of the population (Robinson et al., 2017). In Ohio, the gender gap between male and female superintendents is more pronounced with 16.8% of superintendents identifying as female at the…

By the year 2023, most children attending public school in the United States will be of a minority race (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2013). However, 80% of the teachers in public schools are White (Musu, 2019). Student identity (race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, cultural/linguistic, disability, gender identity/expression, and…