Despite the existing gender stereotypes associated with science and masculinity, there are some female teachers in secondary co-educational schools in Bangladesh who are contesting this normative discourse by taking up a profession in the science field. This research is an attempt to make visible lived gendered experiences of female science…

The purpose of the study is to reveal the relationship between women teachers' career barriers and their organizational silence, and also whether career barriers predict their silence.* Study group is comprised of 522 teachers working at elementary and high schools in central districts of Mersin. In this descriptive study, data were collected…

In this study, the relationship between career barriers of women teachers and their alienation to the teaching is examined. Although the number of women teachers was close to the male teachers in the study, the reasons leading to the decrease in the number of women teachers in the administrational career steps were taken as career barriers. The…

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of ethical leadership on teachers' job satisfaction, and affective commitment in an education sector. This study proposes that ethical leadership has a significant and positive effect on overall job satisfaction and affective commitment. Moreover, it suggests that ethical leadership has an…

Problem Statement: Despite many positive developments, in practice it is still not possible for women to be equal to men in the twenty-first century. One of the fields in which inequality between men and women continues to exist is education. In educational institutions, women are not given the same opportunities as men to be promoted to higher…

The effect of gender on retirement attitudes among college faculty and other university professionals were studied, and variables that might affect attitudes toward retirement were investigated. A 35-item questionnaire was mailed to all faculty and nonteaching professionals at a university center, a four-year college, and a community college of…

Interviews with 48 primary and secondary teachers in New Zealand provided comparisons of the career patterns of male and female teachers. The respondents taught at urban and rural schools and had a variety of status levels, from assistant teacher to principal. Respondents' ages ranged from under 25 to 55 years. The interviews were informal and…

The purposes of this study were (1) to identify the concerns about teaching expressed in their early years of teaching by graduates of the early childhood education (ECE) program at Concordia Teachers College (CTC), a church-related teacher education institution, and (2) to determine the relationship between teaching concerns and the variables of…

The personal and professional attributes, beliefs, interests, and behaviors of secondary social studies teachers were examined. Major sources of data included: a prior study which surveyed a random sample of teachers in six states; a survey of three high schools in the Rochester, New York, area; a publication of the New York State Education…