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Sampson, Pauline M. – Leadership and Research in Education, 2018
This paper describes a qualitative research study of the experiences of Texas female superintendents with longevity. Specifically, five superintendents with tenure of at least six years in one school district were interviewed to hear their voices. Findings show that a strong working relationship with their boards, a solid connection with their…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Females, Superintendents, Qualitative Research
Kruger, Yolanda – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study addressed the lived experience of corporate executive women who have had a trusted advisor. The relayed impact and significance of trusted advisors for their career development was portrayed. Traditionally, women lagged behind men in numbers in key corporate positions. Due to increased international efforts to level the playing field…
Descriptors: Females, Trust (Psychology), Corporations, Career Development
Zhao, Sophia; Puri, Sunil – Center for Creative Leadership, 2017
While more women than ever now participate in the paid workforce, it still can be hard to find women in top leadership positions. To understand why so few women are in top leadership positions, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) set out to understand what factors help women achieve leadership…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Females, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Gender Bias
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Do, Van Hanh Thi; Brennan, Marie – Gender and Education, 2015
This paper develops a dialogical encounter between northern-inspired theorisations of gender and Vietnam's historical and cultural differentiation identified through the presence of matriarchy in ancient societies and its popularity in folklore and contemporary politics. The article draws on interviews with 12 senior women from 8 universities in…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries
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de Sousa, Isabela Cabral Felix – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2013
The aim of this research is to understand how former students view their professional and academic paths after taking part in a specific scientific nonformal educational initiative during high school. This program is called Vocational Scientific Program (Provoc) and is carried out in the Oswald Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Public Health, Foreign Countries, Work Environment
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Parker, Melissa; Patton, Kevin; Sinclair, Christina – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2016
Background: Achieving teacher change and the lofty goals of educational reform initiatives necessitates professional development (PD) designed to help teachers rethink their practice. A key implication for physical education, therefore, is that PD must be organized in ways that utilize teachers' voice, providing opportunities for teachers to build…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Physical Education, Faculty Development
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Newman, Sally – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
This article is about the educational work of governesses on Australia's remote cattle and sheep stations. These stations occupy vast tracts of land in the outback, and form part of global food supply chains exporting meat to countries around the world. The article explores the nature of governesses' work, the boundaries they negotiate to perform…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Females, Rural Areas
Poole, Shelle A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This grounded theory study was designed to understand the process for midcareer women to stay or exit their career. Midcareer women are an understudied population and this study was meant to provide theory that will begin to fill the gap. The literature suggests that, historically, career development studies have been based on men's…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Females, Career Change, Persistence
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Wallace, Janice; Wallin, Dawn; Viczko, Melody; Anderson, Heather – McGill Journal of Education, 2014
Our research situates, contextualizes, and analyzes the lived experiences of ten female academics who were among the first women in the academic discipline of educational administration in seven of the ten provinces in Canada. Using institutional ethnography and life history to inform our analysis, this article explores three of the themes that…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Females, Women Faculty, Womens Studies
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Kass, Efrat – Gender and Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to expand the theory of self-efficacy in relation to feminist perspectives by exploring the factors and the dynamics that foster a low sense of professional self-efficacy in Israeli female teachers. Listening to their voices enables us to learn about their past experiences in the nuclear family and consider their…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Feminism, Females, Teacher Attitudes
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Dlamini, Eunice Tressa; Adams, Jabulile Dorothy – Perspectives in Education, 2014
This article presents research on women's experiences of patriarchy in a Higher Education Institution X. This is a qualitative study located within the interpretivists' paradigm. The research problem of this study is articulated through the following research questions: how do female academics experience patriarchy? How does patriarchy…
Descriptors: Females, Women Faculty, College Faculty, African Americans
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Reybold, L. Earle – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
What does it mean to "be" an ethical faculty member? A number of scholars point to legal and moral issues, aligning ethics with professional codes and regulated by institutional policy. From this perspective, being ethical is a matter of knowing and following the professional rules--the goal is to avoid certain actions. On the other…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Ethics, Females, Minority Group Teachers
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Rabe, Marlize; Rugunanan, Pragna – Gender and Education, 2012
This article explores issues of gender and race in the academic careers of female sociologists in South Africa by focusing on selected women who left academic departments in higher education institutions. In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 participants who left various Sociology departments at different times. It was found that young black…
Descriptors: Careers, Race, Females, Foreign Countries
Thomas, Sheila A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Studies in the literature have demonstrated underrepresentation of women in higher education leadership. Nonetheless, women leaders have achieved success when they received strong institutional support. However, even with supportive institutional policies like family leave, there was a need for mapping a more defined career pathway for aspiring…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Disproportionate Representation, School Policy
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Lin, Yii-Nii – Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2012
The purpose of this study was to describe the burnout, self-care, and recovery experiences of female university counsellors working at a university counselling centre in Taiwan. The 9 participants had an average age of 42.44 years and had worked at the centre for an average of 11.3 years. A qualitative method of phenomenology with in-depth…
Descriptors: Age, Foreign Countries, Burnout, Data Analysis
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