This review aims at providing a synthesis of the scholarship that has sought to expand the understanding of the early career stage of principalship by documenting the experiences and tasks of new principals (NPs) in the first three years in the post, and their personal and organizational determinants. The synthesis is based on empirical research…

The purpose of the current study was to unearth subjective interpretations of women principals concerning job satisfaction and dissatisfaction in their career and to examine whether their interpretations differ from common, "androgynous" constructions of job satisfaction developed outside the field of education but that constitute the basis on…

Reviews some of the literature on the concept of burnout; summarizes the common epistemologies of theories and models of burnout; presents a comparison of the interpretations that six Israeli women principals give of their experiences with burnout in midcareer with the common construction of burnout; analyzes findings in light of feminist…