Foreword
Charol Shakeshaft

Preface

Introduction
Patricia A. Schmuck and Diane M. Dunlap

I. Preparing Women for Leadership: Conditions and Critiques

1. Reexamining Educational Leadership: Challenging Assumptions
Penny Poplin Gosetti and Edith Rusch

2. Ten Years Later: Too Little, Too Late?
Sakre Kennington Edson

3. The Head Teacher as Career Broker: Stories from An English Primary School
Sandra Acker

4. "Is That Sociology?" The Accounts of Women of Color Graduate Students in Ph.D. Programs
Mary Romero and Debbie Storrs

5. Gender Awareness and Contradictions in The Education of Early Childhood Teachers
Christine Chaille

II. Socialization of Women into Educational Leadership: Conditions and Critiques

6. Women Ascending to Leadership: The Organizational Socialization of Principals
Ann Weaver Hart

7. Learning Leadership through Mentorships
L. Jean Pence

8. The Mom and Pop Model of School Administration: A Case Study
Michelle Collay and Helen LaMar

9. Suit-able for Promotion: A Game of Educational Snakes and Ladders
Alyson M. Worrall

10. The Bureaucratic Restraints to Caring in Schools
Ava L. McCall

III. Women Leading: Assimilation, Acceptance and Resistance

11. Advocacy Organizations for Women School Administrators, 1977-1993
Patricia A. Schmuck

12. The Trouble with Change: A Conversation between Colleagues
Willi Coleman and Patricia Harris

13. Administrative Women and Their Writing: Reproduction and Resistance in Bureaucracies
Joanne E. Cooper

14. Women in Educational Administration: Views of Equity
Evelyn Nelson Matthews

15. Women Principals' Views on Sex Equity: Exploring Issues of Integration and Information
Patricia A. Schmuck and Jane Schubert

16. "If I Weren't Involved in Schools, I Might Be Radical" Gender Consciousness in Context
Colleen S. Bell

17. The Class Ceiling Reconsidered: Views from Below
Mary Woods Scherr

Part IV. Shaping Alternative Visions of Leadership: An Agenda for a New Century

18. To Walk The Red Road as School Leaders
P.J. Ford Slack and Patricia Cornelius

19. Women's Working Worlds: A Case Study of A Female Organization
Patricia Valentine

20. Leadership from The Classroom: Women Teachers as A Key to School Reform
Vivian Troen and Katherine C. Boles

21. Women Principals--Leading with Power
Kathleen S. Hurty

22. In the Image of The Double Helix: A Reconstruction of Schooling
Helen B. Regan

23. Women Leading: An Agenda for A New Century
Diane M. Dulap

List of Contributors

Index