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Examining Career Paths of Women in Educational Leadership: The Impact of Age, Gender, Maternity and Parental Leaves
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Komla Essiomle; Leticia Nadler; Samira ElAtia – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2024
This study delves into the complex dynamics of leadership within Alberta's K-12 education system, specifically focusing on the relationship between age, gender, maternity and parental leaves and women's career progression. Using an explanatory mixed-method approach, comprising a survey of 416 educational leaders and two focus groups of 20 women in…
Descriptors: Career Development, Instructional Leadership, Females, Women Administrators
Men Managing, Not Teaching Foundation Phase: Teachers, Masculinity and the Early Years of Primary Schooling
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Moosa, Shaaista; Bhana, Deevia – Educational Review, 2017
In this article we argue that eliminating the divisions of labour between men and women could work towards counteracting gender inequality within professions. Globally women are over-represented in the teaching of young children in the early years of primary school, or Foundation Phase (FP), as it is known in South Africa. We are concerned to go…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Gender Bias, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Primary Education
Problems of the Development of Alternative Forms of Preschool Education
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Ballaeva, E. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2014
An insufficient number of affordable places in Russia's preschool system is affecting the educational development of many young children and reducing the number of mothers who could be working in the economy.
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Nontraditional Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education