Factors Hindering The Rise Of Women In Educational Leadership Case Study
This study seeks to investigate the factors hindering the rise of women to leadership positions in educational management. A total of 250 respondents made up of teachers and educational administrators were selected to complete a questionnaire. The raw data consisting of 18 original factors were subjected to factor analysis with the view to identifying new composite factors that could explain the reasons why many women fail to make it to educational leadership. In all, seven factors were identified. These were: failure of women to attain higher education and general mentality towards women in leadership, behavioural factors of women, biasness towards women in attaining higher positions and men’s attitude towards women in higher positions. These
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REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Leadership is of great importance in educational administration because of its far reaching effects on the accomplishment of school programmes, objectives and the attainment of the educational goals. Because the topic of leadership has fascinated people for centuries, various definitions abound.
Yukl (2006) defined leadership as the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it and the process of facilitating individuals and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives. In the views of Mills (2005), leadership is a process by which one person influences the thought, attitudes and behaviours of others. That is to say leadership is the ability to get other people to do something significant that they might not otherwise do. It is energizing people towards a goal. Leaders set direction(s) for followers, they help visualize what must be achieved and they encourage and inspire their followers. Without leadership a group of human beings can quickly degenerate into arguments and conflicts because they see things in different ways and lean towards different …show more content…
From the list of schools collected, it was discovered that only a few schools were headed by females. Therefore, if a random sampling technique was applied to select schools for the study, the researchers could have ended up having the vast majority of schools with male heads and would not give a true representation of the views of both sexes. In view of this, there was a deliberate selection of schools to obtain a representative sample of institutions headed by a male or a female.
A sample size of 250 respondents comprising 190 teachers, 23 schools administrators, 35 office administrators, 1 District Director and 1 Regional Director of Education. However, female administrators were deliberately selected into the sample. Questionnaire was used in gathering the data. This instrument was preferred because all the respondents were well educated and could read and understand the questions very
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Leadership is of great importance in educational administration because of its far reaching effects on the accomplishment of school programmes, objectives and the attainment of the educational goals. Because the topic of leadership has fascinated people for centuries, various definitions abound.
Yukl (2006) defined leadership as the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it and the process of facilitating individuals and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives. In the views of Mills (2005), leadership is a process by which one person influences the thought, attitudes and behaviours of others. That is to say leadership is the ability to get other people to do something significant that they might not otherwise do. It is energizing people towards a goal. Leaders set direction(s) for followers, they help visualize what must be achieved and they encourage and inspire their followers. Without leadership a group of human beings can quickly degenerate into arguments and conflicts because they see things in different ways and lean towards different …show more content…
From the list of schools collected, it was discovered that only a few schools were headed by females. Therefore, if a random sampling technique was applied to select schools for the study, the researchers could have ended up having the vast majority of schools with male heads and would not give a true representation of the views of both sexes. In view of this, there was a deliberate selection of schools to obtain a representative sample of institutions headed by a male or a female.
A sample size of 250 respondents comprising 190 teachers, 23 schools administrators, 35 office administrators, 1 District Director and 1 Regional Director of Education. However, female administrators were deliberately selected into the sample. Questionnaire was used in gathering the data. This instrument was preferred because all the respondents were well educated and could read and understand the questions very