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Fleming, Gwendolyn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The nation's gender leadership gap, or the disproportionate number of men in top leadership positions versus women, has prevailed throughout the history of public education (Superville, 2016; Rosenberg, 2017). Despite the fact that 76% of America's educators were women, only 27% of the nation's school superintendents were female (U.S. Department…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Superintendents, Females, Women Administrators
La Rose, Marlon A. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to assess what attracted women to information technology (IT) careers, what kinds of experiences they encountered upon entry, what factors influenced their persistence, and for those persisting, what advice they would offer to other women pursuing IT careers. This study followed a qualitative methodology that employed…
Descriptors: Females, Information Technology, Career Choice, Persistence
Howard, Elizabeth A. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Hispanic women majoring in engineering have been a marginalized population for decades in higher education. The study for my dissertation is to evaluate how peer support programs benefit or hinder Hispanic women in their persistence majoring in engineering at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) located on the Southwest border. Identifying how the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Females, Majors (Students), Engineering
Siler, Demetria N. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
For years now, reports by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on local and national community colleges consistently show how the number of Black faculty employed at community colleges is relatively lower than the number of White faculty. Recent data show that Black faculty represent only 7.4% of all instructional staff in community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, African American Teachers, Disproportionate Representation
Emmanuel Chiedozie Osakwe – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Higher education in Nigeria is provided by institutions, such as the universities, colleges, and polytechnics in conjunction with the monotechnic (accredited by federal, state, and private institutions specialized in providing instructions on a single scientific or technical subjects, such as agriculture and related disciplines). Supervisory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Access to Education, Higher Education
Noosha Razmara – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined the experiences of Iranian-American and Iranian female leaders within higher education institutions. Utilizing a qualitative phenomenological approach, the research actively engaged a cohort of 18 participants through purposive sampling and semi-structured interviews. Four research questions guided this study, highlighting the…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Instructional Leadership, Personal Narratives, Administrator Attitudes
Hazelwood, Bruce Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Discussions about sports continue to permeate the news and political realms and may prove to be a useful but underutilized tool to teach difficult subjects like race, gender, and sexuality. However, most scholarly work on sport focuses on a specific systemic inequality within a sport and/or how an issue affects sport and thus are sociological in…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Higher Education, College Students
Leonel Alberto Diaz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Using creative autoethnographic "testimonio" (CAT), a story is told about the injustices within the learning environment and work environment of higher education toward a person with disabilities: sleep apnea, learning disabilities, negative mental health. The author explores the health difficulties of addressing sleep deprivation while…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Higher Education, Organizational Culture, Social Justice
Jina Hughes – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Underrepresentation of African-American males as grade level rises is a major concern in education (Duggins & Acosta, 2017; Howard, 2010; Husband, 2012; Tatum, 2006; Washington, Patton-Terry, & Siedenberg, 2013). Prior studies have placed the blame on African-American males in grades k-12 for their lack of academic progress. In an effort…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Racism, Gender Bias
Cassidy, Maureen – ProQuest LLC, 2018
There continues to be a discrepancy in the number of females occupying the superintendent position in the United States. In Illinois, 24% of superintendents are female while 75% educators are female. This study examined the perceived barriers of aspiring superintendents in achieving the top position in education as well as the differences between…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Barriers, Females, Superintendents
China, Addie L. Sayers – ProQuest LLC, 2018
At the intersection of digital identities and new language and social practice online is the concept of searchable talk (ST). ST describes the process of tagging discourse in a social networking service (SNS) with a hashtag (#), allowing it to be searchable by others. Although originating in Twitter, ST has expanded into other SNS, and is used…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Social Media, Self Concept, Computer Mediated Communication
Reeves, Lisa A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
There are a limited number of African American women in senior executive-level leadership positions within four-year predominantly White institutions of higher education. According to the 2016 IPEDS, there are an increasing number of Black females who are enrolling and graduating from colleges and universities with higher education credentials.…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Women Administrators, Higher Education
Adriana Alfaro – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The cyphers don't lie: women remain significantly underrepresented in positions of authority across the United States, despite their nearly equal representation in the labor force. Gender bias has been proposed as one of the major reasons for the disparity in leadership roles between men and women. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Women Administrators, Leadership Effectiveness, Research Universities
Payette, Sandra D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Where are the women in computing? This dissertation explores the underrepresentation of women in computing as a cultural issue. After considering the role of women in the history of computing, it examines contemporary interventions to address gender bias and promote gender diversity in the tech sector and Silicon Valley. Not for profit…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Discourse Analysis, Computer Science
Eastman, Rebekah Dimick – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The secondary classroom is a place where girls and boys have very different experiences (Sadker, 2002; Pinar, Reynolds, Slattery, & Taubman, 2008). This feminist, phenomenological study sought to understand the experiences of beginning teachers in rural secondary schools, specifically regarding gender and gender equity in their classrooms. Ten…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Rural Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Beginning Teachers