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Sandra J. Moody – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While researchers have studied many aspects of females in the workplace the purpose statement for this study which followed a qualitative descriptive method and design was to explore how female nonprofit human services leaders describe their career journey toward executive leadership and how they overcame any social role challenges they may have…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Females, Administrators, Career Development
Maree, Jacobus G.; Nortjé, Mia – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2023
This article reports on career construction counselling with a purposefully selected, mid-career, midlife woman. A single-case study research design was implemented. Data were gathered using an integrative qualitative and quantitative approach. After the intervention, the participant exhibited an enhanced sense of self-awareness. Career…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Females, Adults, Intervention
Thea R. Celestine – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore how African American female college presidents were socialized to work as senior-level administrators at higher education institutions in the United States and to understand how race and gender impact their professional identity development. My goal is that this research study will…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, College Presidents, Professional Identity
Beatrice Avolio; Jessica Marleny Chávez Cajo – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: This phenomenological study, conducted within the discourse on the underrepresentation of women in academia, examined the factors influencing the advancement of women academics in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Design/methodology/approach: The sample comprised twenty-one women academics from both public and…
Descriptors: Females, College Faculty, STEM Careers, Influences
Teresa Marion Theiling – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Connect STEM Mentoring Program aims to provide professional and career connections to women in STEM. As a product of an ADVANCE grant funded by the National Science Foundation, this program strives to promote advancement for women in STEM. As a male-dominated field, women in STEM commonly face barriers to advancement opportunities which can…
Descriptors: Career Development, Self Efficacy, Mentors, College Faculty
Shamika Almeida; Melanie Randle; Zumalia Norzailan; Mark Cropley – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
This article examines the job crafting strategies senior academic women use to progress in their careers. The study was exploratory and inductive and used in-depth interviews to gather data from 43 senior academic women in Australia, the United Kingdom, and Malaysia. Data were analyzed using thematic content analysis in combination with reflective…
Descriptors: Career Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Faculty
Li Bao – European Journal of Education, 2024
In recent decades, research has explored tension between women academics' motherhood and institutional discourse. This study, however, delves into the performances of nine Chinese women academics who are mothers and their body boundaries between motherhood and career progression based on semistructured interview data, using thematic analysis…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Females, Mothers, Birth
Wanda J. Aponte-Zapata – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative exploratory study examines the perspectives of Hispanic women on barriers to educational leadership in the U.S. K-12 education. It aims to understand the challenges faced by Hispanic women in aspiring to leadership roles within the educational sector. Phenomenology, Driving Force Theory, and Intersectionality Theory form the…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Women Administrators, Leadership, Elementary Secondary Education
Debra A. Otey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There has been an increase in the number of women serving as heads of school in independent schools, though women remain underrepresented as heads of school in large (> 700 students), K-12, co-educational independent day schools. Data in this qualitative study were gathered through interviews with six women who were current or retired heads of…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Private Schools, Disproportionate Representation
Greeni Maheshwari; Lizbeth A. Gonzalez-Tamayo; Adeniyi D. Olarewaju – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
Mexico, the second-largest economy in Latin America after Brazil, has a gender gap index score of 76.4% in 2022 compared to 75.7% in 2021 and is ranked 31 out of 146 countries for 2022. Mexico has become one of the world's leaders in gender-political equality, which shows that the gender ceiling is cracking, and it is yet to see if gender parity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Women Administrators, Gender Bias
Amarillas, Angie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative descriptive study aimed to explore how Latina professionals in supervisory roles described a long-term affiliation with a professional association in Arizona. The fundamental theoretical foundation of the study is the social cognitive career theory, which led to four research questions. The idea was to describe Latina…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Females, Supervisors, Career Development
Ingrid L. Colvard; Mary Zaharis – Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, 2023
Women in education are strongly represented in the classroom but are much less likely to become school district superintendents. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand how women who have been superintendents for at least 3 years experienced mentoring and role preparation as they worked to attain the position. A transcendental…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Females, Women Administrators, Disproportionate Representation
Ashley C. Ushi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study aimed to explore the journeys of women to executive leadership roles in higher education. It used a phenomenological approach to examine the lived experiences of women currently working in higher education at 4-year institutions. Participants were recruited using a LinkedIn search and the experiences of five women, all…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, College Administration, Leadership Role, Females
Theawiana Nicole Bracewell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this study, I focused on African-American women who have pursued and continue to pursue administrative roles at a predominately White institution in the Midwest. Using a phenomenology approach, that employed an initial questionnaire sent to various marginalized groups in the Midwest to women who fit the research criteria. After completing the…
Descriptors: Females, African Americans, Administrator Role, Predominantly White Institutions
Denise M. Harris – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Feminism has re-emerged as important and even influential discourse among women, including within higher education. Public support by prominent women has brought an upgraded version of feminism into the mainstream. This version of "neoliberal feminism" however, overlooks the challenges faced by many first-generation, undergraduate women,…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Females, Womens Education, Feminism