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Heather A. Gigliello – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to understand the influence the Right to Freedom from Discrimination in Public Workplaces and Education (Right to Freedom) law has had on New Hampshire public high school English teachers. This study explores how the onset of this law may cause teachers to avoid diverse and multicultural literature in their curriculum…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), High School Teachers, English Teachers, Academic Freedom
Ja'lessa Hardwick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
While suffering from gendered racism experiences, Black women are at a higher risk for developing chronic physical and mental health conditions. Furthermore, Black women in doctoral programs are more likely to experience inadequate support and guidance that can ultimately hinder professional development and progress. The current literature has…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Doctoral Programs, Psychology, Doctoral Students
Fischer, Sharon – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed-methods research study was to explore how prevalent impostor phenomenon (IP) is among education leaders in the province of Alberta, and to determine what can be done to support these leaders. This study explored the extent to which educational leaders experience impostor phenomenon, and how those experiences varied by…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Foreign Countries, Administrator Characteristics
Deaver, Crystal – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In comparison to men, the high school principal role in Texas is a position that few women obtain in their educational leadership journey. Even though women are statistically more prominently employed as teachers in K-12 public education in Texas, women are not equally represented in the superintendency. This disparity of representation starts at…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Females, Women Administrators, Superintendents
Coretta Roseboro Walker – ProQuest LLC, 2020
While the racial and ethnic diversity of the United States of America's overall population (especially the college student population) are expanding at unprecedented levels, the leadership within higher education's Ivory Tower has remained consistent for the past 300 years. At the highest levels, leadership remains largely monolithic -- this is…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Administrators, Instructional Leadership
Bernal, Carolyn Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The underrepresentation of female superintendents leading school districts today continues to be a persistent educational problem. There are many qualified women actively seeking the superintendency; however, gatekeepers such as school board members and search firm consultants control the gates and channels of the superintendent selection process…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Females, Women Administrators, Superintendents
Carroll, Whitney E. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine how higher education administrators, faculty, and staff are able to identify subtle sexism, and indicate how they perceive it in the higher education workplace. Past research has also shown micro-aggressions lead to hostility and uncertainty in the workplace (Swim et al., 1995, 1997; Tougas et al., 1995).…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Higher Education, Work Environment, College Faculty
Carithers, Alisa – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore the mentorship women of color leaders provide other women of color seeking leadership advancement in Student Services at California community colleges. Specifically, the interviews and observations were designed to capture the identity-conscious strategies, related to the intersection of race and gender,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Females, Leadership Training, Minority Groups
Sheila R. Johnson-Gooden – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Women have been the majority of undergraduate and graduate students in U.S. postsecondary institutions for the past 35 years, but their representation is decreasing at each step of leadership ranks in higher education institutions. The problem addressed by this qualitative phenomenological study was the underrepresentation of women in higher…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Higher Education, Females, Leadership Role
Janelle Renee King – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A "leaky pipeline" exists for women to obtain a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) leadership position in the United States (U.S.). A deeper dive into what was holding women back from an engineering leadership position is imperative in today's technology-driven world. Utilizing feminist theory as a theoretical lens,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Leadership Role, Engineering
Jodi Megerle – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The role of public school superintendent is one of the most gendered executive positions in the United States, with men twenty times more likely than women to advance from teacher to superintendent. Although the majority of teachers and central office administrators in schools are women, the majority of superintendents are men. Women have made…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Women Administrators, Disproportionate Representation, Gender Bias
Shelly Geneen Goines-Harris – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This research study was designed to add to the existing but limited literature that explores perceived barriers and challenges African-American women superintendents experienced while ascending and serving in the superintendency. According to the literature, African-American women are underrepresented in the role of public school superintendents.…
Descriptors: African American Leadership, Women Administrators, Females, Superintendents
McCummings, Ahada Lamle – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The underrepresentation of female leaders in intercollegiate athletics has long been a problem since the implementation of Title IX in 1972. While Title IX was successful in increasing the number of females participating in college sports, it was not as impactful on increasing the number of females leading in college sports. On the contrary, as…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Extramural Athletics, Women Administrators, Females
Shanita L. Pettaway – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) enforces, among other statutes, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. While Title IX is directed towards the prevention of discrimination in collegiate athletics, Title IX does not explicitly remedy only issues in college athletics. Rather, the statute's heart is a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Black Colleges
Nisreen Akram Abdallah – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The current study examines gender representations in Dummett et al. (2016) EFL textbook, Keynote, at Middle Eastern University in the Middle East. Keynote is an EFL textbook that is used to teach students in English for Business I and English for Business II courses. The study followed Fairclough's (1989, 1995, 2001, 2015) three-dimensional models…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Textbooks
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