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Vanessa Conejo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Male superintendents predominantly hold superintendency in K-12 public school districts in the southern United States. The research problem was the underrepresentation of female superintendents in K-12 public school districts. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how female superintendents perceive the underrepresentation of…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Women Administrators, Disproportionate Representation, Public Schools
Casie J. Dimsey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Even with women outnumbering men in obtaining graduate and professional degrees in educational leadership, the representation between women and men in higher level positions such as principalships, district office executives, and superintendencies remains incongruent. Consequently, this incongruency is further exacerbated when we look beyond women…
Descriptors: Leadership, Females, Latin Americans, Elementary Secondary Education
Santhanagopalan, Radhika; Heck, Isobel A.; Kinzler, Katherine D. – Developmental Science, 2022
Across the globe, women and racial minorities are underrepresented in leadership. We examined the development of 5-10-year-old children's leadership cognition in India, the world's largest democracy. This cultural context offered the opportunity to study the development of attitudes about gender and to extend examinations of children's conceptions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Bias, Gender Bias, Age Differences
Michelle Antoinette Parsons – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The need for more STEM graduates in the workforce has been an ongoing conversation for decades; however, very little attention is spent on the differing levels of degree attainment. This study focuses on variables that predict (positively or negatively) the degree aspirations of STEM majors six years after they begin their post-secondary education…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Majors (Students), Academic Aspiration, Community Colleges
Fuesting, Melissa – College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, 2023
Throughout this report, we will investigate trends for administrators overall and provide further analyses on three key administrator positions: presidents, provosts, and chief human resources officers (CHROs). This report starts with an investigation of trends in representation and pay equity by gender (women, men) among administrators over the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Salary Wage Differentials, Trend Analysis, Gender Differences
Kelly Ann Holt – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Higher education research supports that diverse faculty reflecting the students' ethnic and gender diversity is best practice to facilitate students of color academic success. Yet regrettably the underrepresentation of faculty of color in higher education is a historic and ongoing problem. Further, may scholars point to college senior leaders as…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Instructional Leadership, Diversity (Faculty), Student Diversity
Crystal Pemberton Howe – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem addressed by this study was disparities in the STEM professional and scholastic pipelines persist and are exacerbated by the underrepresentation of females and Black populations, indigenous populations, and people of color (BIPOC) in a variety of STEM fields. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to examine teachers'…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation, Females, African Americans
Oleksiyenko, Anatoly; Ruan, Nian – Higher Education Quarterly, 2019
This paper re-examines intellectual leadership in Higher Education by asking the following questions: What is intellectual leadership? Does intellectual leadership imply a position of formal authority and power? What patterns can be observed in the career paths of intellectual leaders? Does cumulative advantage in science automatically pave the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Females, Minority Groups
Taylor, Maria; Hung, Jacob; Che, Thi Elena; Akinbosede, Daniel; Petherick, Katy J.; Pranjol, Md Zahidul I. – Education Sciences, 2021
This study presents a case for decolonising the life sciences curriculum to improve representation of the Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) scholars--a step in eliminating the race "awarding gap". Here, we investigated diversity among authors in terms of ethnicity and gender of reading lists at the School of Life Sciences,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biological Sciences, Science Curriculum, College Curriculum
Carrier, Sarah J.; Jones, M. Gail; Ennes, Megan; Madden, Lauren; Lee, Tammy; Cayton, Emily; Chesnutt, Katherine; Huff, Pamela; Phillips, Lanette; Bellino, Marisa – Science Educator, 2020
Although policy makers have made gains in getting students to consider future careers in science, women and many minorities are still underrepresented in science fields. Here we describe research conducted with fifth grade students in a rural area of the southeastern U.S. that examined students' concepts of scientists' characteristics. The results…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Scientists, Science Careers, Grade 5
Johnson, Natasha N.; Fournillier, Janice B. – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
This paper is a collation of the experiences of four Black women, all senior-level educational leaders in the United States of America. Considering the predominance of White males in educational leadership, our paper furthers the conversation around race-gender diversification in this realm. We employed a hermeneutic phenomenological approach,…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, African Americans, Minority Groups, Instructional Leadership
Wang, Xueli; Wickersham, Kelly – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2018
Two-year colleges are an increasingly used but understudied pathway to STEM degrees for women from historically underserved backgrounds. This chapter discusses the community college promise in solving the gender gap in STEM attainment, as well as related research findings and directions.
Descriptors: Females, Community Colleges, STEM Education, Educational Attainment
Nkwonta, Chigozie A.; Harrison, Sayward E. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a critical public health challenge and disproportionately affects young adults, racial minorities, and residents of the Southern United States. This study aimed to investigate HIV knowledge, risk perception, and testing behaviors among a sample of college students in South Carolina (SC).…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Public Health, Case Studies, State Universities
Walker, Leilani; Sin, Isabelle; Macinnis-Ng, Cate; Hannah, Kate; McAllister, Tara – Education Sciences, 2020
In light of policies and programs designed to address the domination of academic positions by male, frequently white individuals, we review the participation of women, one of multiple minority identities within the academy, in Aotearoa New Zealand's academic workforce using employment data from eight universities from 2002-2017. While the number…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Gender Differences, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty
Jansen, Elle – Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2021
Though Massachusetts is viewed as a leader in K-12 education, our state grapples with significant racial and gender power gaps in education leadership. This report, developed in partnership with the Women's Power Gap Initiative of the Eos Foundation, delves into the inequities among superintendents and other leadership roles in Massachusetts…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Elementary Secondary Education, Gender Differences, Racial Differences