Women superintendents find themselves criticized if they are seen as allowing the job to take them away from their families, and also criticized if they take time from the job for their families.
Barbara Jenkins heads the Women in Leadership initiative for the educators’ advocacy group Chiefs for Change.Although women make up 76% of K–12 teachers in the U.S., they are just 54% of principals, and only, according to federal data and a survey done by AASA, the School Superintendents Association. But several initiatives are underway that are designed to improve these numbers by creating opportunities for women educators obtain top positions.
“It’s not very different from the corporate world,” says Barbara Jenkins, a former superintendent who heads the Women in Leadership initiative for the educators’ advocacy groupAnd similar to other fields, the reasons for women’s low representation in the upper echelons include bias in hiring , insufficient mentoring and preparation for women, a “boys’ club” mentality that shuts women out of networking, and, in some cases, women’s own hesitation to put themselves up for the top job.
Susana Enfield, the superintendent of Washoe County School District in Reno, Nevada, says a friend with three children became a superintendent. That friend took time off to see her kids’ sporting events, which made some in the school community question her priorities. Emily Hartnett says ILO Group’s Women Leading Ed program is where its members come together to support one another. “I would say the biggest thing is creating community,” Hartnett says. “And this can look a lot of different ways. It can be executive coaching, it can be programming that is for groups of executive leaders within a regional area, district, or state.
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