Eureka! Institutional Repository

The aim of this project is to approach, through bibliography, the concepts of leadership – administration and gender and to analyze why women continue to be underrepresented in managerial positions, despite the legal establishment of equality between the two sexes. Especially, in the field of education women comprise the majority, nevertheless, according to the findings of many surveys, they are the large minority in positions of responsibility. Women, victims of the “glass ceiling” phenomenon, are primarily restricted to their teaching duties and do not claim administrative posts in the educational hierarchy, unlike their male counterparts. The causes of this under-representation of women in school administration -and not only in this field– are personal, institutional and sociοpolitical. Gender discrimination is a fact and it is our duty as individuals, society and state to adopt exceedance policies, if we want to stop its perpetuation. Recently, hopeful messages have begun to emerge towards this direction. Slowly but steadily we are led to a reversal of the current situation. As a society, however, we have still a long way to go until achieving equal participation of women in the administration of school units.