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Lotz-Drlik, Jane Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Within the context of a nationwide shortage of teachers of color, stable enrollment of Native American students, and increasing enrollments of Hispanic students, the purpose of this study was to examine self-reported stress among Native American, Hispanic, and Caucasian K-5 teachers. This was a mixed-methods study, with both quantitative and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Minority Group Teachers, Whites
Murniati, Cecilia Titiek – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Increasing numbers of women have gained access to college and the college teaching profession worldwide. However, women continue to be underrepresented in academic, research, and leadership positions. Women who have aspirations for top leadership positions still encounter numerous internal and external challenges. Existent literature on women…
Descriptors: Career Development, Women Administrators, Barriers, Performance Factors
MacArthur, Tracy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Though women constitute the majority of the teacher workforce, historically, they have been underrepresented in the school superintendency. And although California boasts higher percentages of female superintendents than the national average, a discrepancy clearly continues to exist. This study investigated female school superintendents' common…
Descriptors: Careers, Mentors, Females, Leadership Styles
Okun, Tema Jon – ProQuest LLC, 2010
"The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know" is designed to offer both practical and theoretical grounding for leaders and teachers interested in effectively addressing racism as well as other oppressive constructs. The dissertation offers an overview of the role of western culture in maintaining…
Descriptors: Social History, Sexuality, Racial Bias, Race
Burnette, Samara Fleming – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Currently, little is known about African-American women with doctoral degrees in physics. This study examined the lived experiences of African-American women who completed doctoral programs in physics. Due to factors of race and gender, African-American women automatically enter a double-bind in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics…
Descriptors: Physics, Females, African American Students, Resilience (Psychology)
Skinner, Tracy Shook – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate barriers women face when entering school administration as well as perceptions of the high school principalship held by female high school principals and assistant principals aspiring to the principalship. Work conflicts and job demands for women were explored as well as the significance of mentoring…
Descriptors: Females, School Administration, Principals, Assistant Principals
Knutson, Julie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A grounded theory following an emerging design was completed in this study to identify the impact of program changes resulting from accreditation decisions on faculty culture in one department of a teacher preparation program at a university in the north-central area of the United States. The seven focus group participants agreed that faculty…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, College Faculty, Work Ethic, Gender Bias
Fong-Batkin, LeAnn Gayle – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This qualitative study examines deeply the career trajectories of 13 women of color administrators at the dean, vice president, and president levels in the California community college (CCC) system. The study focuses particular attention on the specific opportunities and challenges that some of these women have encountered on their leadership…
Descriptors: Careers, Community Colleges, Females, Leadership Styles
Lee, Rebecca Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Despite the proliferation of women in higher education and the workforce, they have yet to achieve parity with men in many of the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors and careers. The gap is even greater in the representation of women from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. This study examined pre-college intervention strategies…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Higher Education, Intervention, Females
Ramirez, Susan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explored faculty members' perceived importance of family-friendly policies in academia, the extent to which faculty perceive academic institutions as having a social responsibility to make the academy more family-friendly, participants' endorsement of gender-biased norms, and whether the faculty members who participated in this study…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Social Responsibility, Gender Bias, College Faculty
Miller, Claire M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Women currently represent the largest number of teachers in the United States but remain underrepresented in the superintendent position. This suggests that the superintendency has been influenced by patriarchy. If women are to break through the barriers that prevent them from attaining a superintendency, we will need to understand the social…
Descriptors: Females, Sex Role, Gender Differences, Women Administrators
Plane, Jandelyn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explores the representation of women in computer science at the tertiary level through data collected about undergraduate computer science education at Kabul University in Afghanistan. Previous studies have theorized reasons for underrepresentation of women in computer science, and while many of these reasons are indeed present in…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Females, Focus Groups, Disproportionate Representation
Kolb, C. Steven – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to broadly examine and analyze gender differences in the leadership styles of Texas public school superintendents by analyzing their subordinates' responses on Bolman and Deal's (1991) Leadership Orientations (Other) survey. Approximately 25% (n = 484) of the high-ranking administrators within the 198 selected school…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Effectiveness, Gender Differences, Gender Bias
Hassett, Kristen Spring – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Gender stereotypes abound in materials (AAUW, 1992; Kratovil & Bailey, 1986; Shafer & Shevitz, 2001), perceptions/expectations (AAUW; Stinnett, Bull, Koonce, & Aldridge, 1999), and vocational training (AAUW; Arms, Bickett, & Graf, 2008; Hanson & Smith, 2001). Achievement measures indicate that girls may be doing better than boys (Corbett, Hill, &…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, Males, Sex Stereotypes
French, Judith C. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The initiative to increase highly qualified college STEM graduates coupled with the phrase "science for all" pushed by standards-based reform has opened an avenue for science education research. How can we increase students' interests in science careers? Specifically, do marginalized groups require differing instructional approaches to increase…
Descriptors: Science Careers, Science Interests, Role Models, Mentors
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