It is widely known that gender bias persists in male-dominated fields. Gender bias is often defined as acts that position one prototypical social group over another (Begeny et al., 2020; Gloor et al., 2020; Roberts & Brown, 2019; Scheifele et al., 2021). It is unknown how male superintendents mentor women while established in their…

Academic development usually focuses on individuals, with activities bounded by institutional strategy. There is a lack of research exploring the emergence of cross-institutional communities of practice and their ability to offer opportunities for professional collaboration, particularly for underrepresented or marginalised groups. Our study…

This hermeneutic phenomenological study sought to fill gaps in the literature surrounding women in the chief enrollment management officer (CEMO) position; on CEMOs in Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) institutions; on post-pandemic strategic enrollment management (SEM) in CCCU institutions; and on SEM concepts, planning, and…

This article reports on research regarding the leadership experience of women middle leaders in secondary schools. Previous research has focused on women in senior leadership in schools. Internationally, the teaching profession tends to be dominated by women, and yet in most countries, women do not occupy a commensurate proportion of senior…

Through a Critical Action Research (Hesse-Biber, 2017) study utilizing the sequential mixed method to examine the experiences of Black women leaders in corporate spaces in the U.S. by situating their experiences in national and local Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) data and delving into the nuanced experiences of four Black women previously…

This article explores the characteristics of leadership in schools where school principals are female, examining the voices and perceptions of the protagonists of female leadership. Employing a case-study methodology, data were collected through 12 in-depth interviews with female principals from the Santiago Metropolitan Region in Chile. The…

This research probed into women's challenges and biases in leadership positions within male-dominated federal government agencies in the United States. This qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) methodology builds on Bishop's (2022) groundwork, "The Female Leadership Gap: Breaking Down the Biases and Barriers of Women in…

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to identify barriers to collaboration among female administrators at a Ghanaian technical university (TU), based on the social identity theory (SIT). Design/methodology/approach: A mixed-method approach was adopted, integrating qualitative interviews of 15 female administrators and completing structured…

This study sought to extend the knowledge of the real-world application of leadership practices relevant and responsive to commonly marginalized students. This study focused on leadership practices of school leaders including principals and assistant principals through the lens of the theoretical framework crafted by Muhammad Khalifa (2018) titled…

As presented in the qualitative research study, women represent only 27% of all 14,000 superintendents nationally (American Association of School Administrators [AASA], 2020) and 30% in New York State (NYS Council of School Superintendents [NYSCOSS], Snapshot IX, 2015). This study was based on a qualitative description design, in which the…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore the perception of community college women leaders on what formal and informal institutional structures exist within community colleges and how these structures support women aspiring to undertake leadership positions in community colleges in the Midwest. The theoretical foundation…

Black and racially minority women are underrepresented in administrative positions of authority in higher education, especially at predominantly white institutions (PWIs). These women are forced to work in environments of articulated boundaries that do not permit their voices or perspectives to be heard and they are overwhelmingly disregarded, in…

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…

Despite significant growth and advancement for women and girls participating in sports, we have not seen the same trend for women in leadership roles in athletics -- even with the introduction of the Senior Woman Administrator (SWA) designation. The SWA designation was implemented in 1989 to ensure that at least one woman would be involved with…

Gender mainstreaming was chosen as a major strategy for the promotion of gender equality in the Beijing Platform for Action in 2002. This approach has been adopted in research policy in many countries, including Norway. We ask: Has the share of published research that includes sex and/or gender perspectives increased during the last decade in…