Study results indicate that the ideal department administrator would be a single female of any age who had some experience at K-12 level, less than 15 years in higher education, less than 10 years of administrative experience in higher education, and on the present job less than 5 years. (Author/CM)

A study to identify and compare the attitudes of women and men administrators toward sex characteristics and sex role images and to examine the relationship between administrators' attitudes and the evaluations of women and men as administrators in higher education is presented. Sampling techniques, data collection and analysis methods are…

The three papers in this collection describe the process of socialization that results in the attainment of the school superintendency. These articles deal with the vice-principalship as a stepping stone to higher office and with the lack of success that minority group members and women experience in educational administration advancement. The…

Results from a 1985 survey show female superintendents in only 2.4 percent of United States public school districts. A summary of interviews with women superintendents gives reasons for this underrepresentation, describes external barriers and internal constraints facing women superintendents, and offers advice to other women aspiring to the…

Female and male higher education administrators in Texas and New Mexico were compared in terms of their sex role orientation, motivational factors, and administrative styles. In addition to individual interviews of the 68 administrators, a questionnaire was developed that included items from the Bem Sex Role Inventory, Work and Family Orientation…