Women Leading Education Across the ContinentsOvercoming the Barriers is the third collection of research about and stories of women leading education on every continent in the world. Internationally recognized scholars and practitioners offer a research-based conversation and systematic collaborative inquiry in exploring the status of women in educational leadership. Their work invites global policy development highlighting women's educational leadership as a critical social justice issue. The array of topics this volume includes are gender status and educational leadership, challenges and barriers for women leaders, confronting the barriers, leading in challenging contexts, and deconstructing the discourse on gendered leadership. This compelling book offers food for the intellect and rage for the belly that impels forward the moral imperative of women leading education internationally.

Elizabeth C. Reilly is internationally recognized for her research with women in educational leadership. She serves as Professor of Educational Leadership and Administration at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, USA.Quirin J. Bauer is Deputy Head of the Student Counseling Centre and Equal Opportunity Commissioner at the University of Augsburg in Germany. He also serves as Deputy Directorate on the Advisory Board of the Bavarian Equal Opportunity Commissioners.

Foreword: Becoming the BeaconHelen Sobehart, United StatesAcknowledgmentsElizabeth C. Reilly and Quirin J. BauerPrologue: I'm Not Going to Take This Sitting Down: The Use and Misuse of Feminist Standpoint Theory in Women's Educational Leadership ResearchCharol Shakeshaft, United StatesSection 1: Gender Status and Educational LeadershipSection 1 Editor -Rachel McNaeSection I Overview: Gender Status and Educational LeadershipJacqueline Oram-SterlingThe American School Superintendent: Women and the SuperintendencyNoelle M. Ellerson, United StatesThe Gender Gap in Academia: The Case of CyprusMaria Eliophotou Menon, Deana Charalambidou-Solomi, and Mary Koutselini, CyprusBreadwinners and Homemakers: How Constructions of Masculinities affect Womens Progression in LeadershipPontso Moorosi, United KingdomAn Investigation of Gender Differences in Teachers CommunicationsApostolia Beka, GreeceWhere are All the Women Superintendents?: A Case Study of Pennsylvania, USA, Jill Sperandio, USASection 2:Challenges and Barriers for Women LeadersSection 2 EditorAnjale WeltonSection 2 Overview: The equal opportunity policy functions with which strategies, under which circumstances and in which period of time?Susanne GruberLeadership Perspectives from a New Generation of Women Leaders: Balancing Acts ContinueWhitney Sherman Newcomb and Margaret Grogan, United StatesWhy Do Women Leave the Superintendency?Kerry Robinson, United StatesTransforming the Field? Scholarship of Women in Educational AdministrationRhonda Mcclellan, Dana Christman, and Adrienne E. Hyle, United StatesBarriers to Leadership and Challenges faced by female Heads in Educational Institutions in UgandaAlice Kagoda, UgandaWhat Kind of Times Are These?: The Mystery of Sexual Harassment in the Post-Liberal Feminism EraCatherine Marshall, Brooke Midkiff, Stephanie Galloway, and Keren Dalyot, United StatesSection 3:Confronting the BarriersSection 3 EditorKerry RobinsonSection 3 Overview: Confronting the Barriers of Women Leaders around the WorldEsther Sui-Chu Ho, ChinaEmpowering Female Faculty in Ghanas Public Universities: Mentoring - a Door Opener in the University of Education, Winneba and University of Cape Coast, GhanaJoyce Wilson-Tagoe, GhanaOrganizational Development by Fostering Young Academic Talents with Gender MainstreamingQuirin J. Bauer, GermanyFemale Graduate Students (Re)Define Mentoring in Educational Leadership: Results from a SurveyAnjalé Welton, Katherine Cumings Mansfield, and Pei-Ling Lee, United StatesTalking About Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class During Training of Public Teachers in São Paulo, BrazilRosangela Malachias, BrazilSection 4:Leading in Challenging ContextsSection 4 EditorDiane ReedSection 4 Overview: Leading in Challenging ContextsLinda LambertWomen of K-12 and Higher Educational Leadership in Afghanistan: A Comparison of ProgressElizabeth C. Reilly, United StatesThe Role of Women Leaders in a World of Terrorism and Natural DisastersAbida Mahmood, PakistanWomen Leading Schools in Challenging ContextsJane Rarieya, TanzaniaOne sisters story of school leadership in the PhilippinesMichelle Colay, PhilippinesSection 5: Deconstructing the Discourse on Gendered LeadershipSection 5 EditorKatherine Cumings MansfieldSection 5 Overview: Deconstructing the Discourse on Gendered LeadershipJane RarieyaTheorizing Women Leaders Experience: Caught in the WebJacky Lumby, United KingdomWhere Does the Power Lie? Gender, Leadership, and Positional PowerSaeeda Shah, United KingdomApplying the Leader Resilience Profile® to Compare and Contrast Leader Resilience by GenderDiane Reed, Bruce Blaine, Jerry L. Patterson, United StatesLearning Gendered Leadership: A Discursive StruggleKay Fuller, United KingdomEpilogueElizabeth C. Reilly& Quirin J. BauerAbout the EditorsAbout the Section EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex