Leading While Female: A Culturally Proficient Response for Gender Equity

by Trudy Tuttle Arriaga, Stacie Lynn Stanley, Delores B. Lindsey

Your take-action guide to gender equity

First, just to be Leading While Female is not a book about how to get a leadership job. Nor is it about fixing or transforming women into male managers or mindsets. Instead, Arriaga, Stanley, and Lindsey’s bigger ambition is to help both women and men educational leaders confront and close the gender equity gap—a gap that currently denies highly qualified women and women of color opportunities to better serve our millions of public school students. Designed as both a personal and group discussion guide for taking action, Leading While Female draws on the research of feminism, intersectionality, educational leadership, and Cultural Proficiency to help us

Better understand the impact of faux narratives that foster lack of confidence among girls and women Utilize the Tools of Cultural Proficiency to examine barriers to overcome and support functions to locate for your own career planning Learn from the stories of women leaders who have confronted and overcome barriers to career development, including women of color who were targets of implicit bias Explore and expand the roles and opportunities for our male colleagues to serve as allies, advocates, and mentors. If we look at the data, we can safely say women are doing the work of classroom teaching while disproportionately, men are making administrative and leadership decisions. Here at last is a resource for the breaking down the barriers and leading the way for future generations of women leaders.

160 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 5, 2020

Reviews

[Samantha Remilong · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gender equality/equity specifically in education system. Most teachers are women but most superintendents are men. A subject I hadn’t considered before so I learned about it. Was repetitive in some aspects and referenced earlier parts of the book often. That seems unnecessary for a 125 page book.

[Katelynn Quinn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book about a month ago and I found it to be extremely informative and easy to read. The authors take great care to highlight the individual experiences of all women who are leaders in education and do a great job of making the book really accessible and entertaining.

My desire is to be an educator myself and I had never given any thought to setting my goals even higher and looking for a leadership position. This book has encouraged me to see the possibilities within my own career and how to go about finding mentors and allies.

I cannot e recommend this book enough to anyone who is interested in leadership or a career in education, and especially both!

[Raeanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s a book every person, male or female, should read when entering school leadership. A great book for an administrative team book-study.