Destined to rule the schools : women and the superintendency, 1873-1995
Annotation Blount (curriculum and instruction, Iowa State U.) takes her title from a proclamation by the superintendent of the Chicago schools in 1909, that because nearly 80% of teachers were women, they would soon dominate administration as well. She describes the era, and how backlash against single women educators after World War and a rigid realignment of gender roles in schools led to a rapid decline in women administrators that has changed little to the present. She suggests that the positions were made appointive to reduce the influence of newly enfranchised women voters, and explores the role of homophobia in creating and perpetuating the rigid gender roles. One chapter has been published separately. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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State University of New York Press, Albany, ©1998
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1 online resource (xv, 244 pages) : illustrations
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List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Their first great public profession
2. A distinctly higher walk
3. Out of politics
4. A change in fashion
5. The way of the buffalo
6. Is this all?
7. Conclusion
Appendix: Historical data on women's representation in the school superintendency
Notes
Index
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