Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ609560
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Publication Date: 2000
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Women Managing/Managing Women: The Marginalization of Female Leadership in Rural School Settings.
Sherman, Ann
Educational Management & Administration, v28 n2 p133-43 Apr 2000
Examines 21 female administrators' accounts of their experience in a rural Nova Scotia school district. Presents preliminary findings of these women's own responses, resistances, and initiatives while attempting to legitimize and implement their preferred leadership styles, which stressed relationships, instructional leadership, communication, and connections. (Contains 19 references.) (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Interpersonal Competence, Interviews, Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Personality Traits, Professional Isolation, Resistance to Change, Rural Schools, Sex Differences, Teamwork, Women Administrators
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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