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Destined to Rule the Schools - Women and the Superintendency, 1873-1995 (Paperback)
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Destined to Rule the Schools - Women and the Superintendency, 1873-1995 (Paperback)
Series: SUNY series, Educational Leadership
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In 1909, when she became the superintendent of the Chicago schools,
Ella Flagg Young proclaimed that women were "destined to rule the
schools of every city". After all, women accounted for nearly
eighty percent of all teachers by 1910 and their ascendance into
formal school leadership positions could not be far behind. After
World War II, however, a backlash against single women educators
and a rigid realignment of gender roles in schools contributed to a
rapid decline of women school administrators across the country, a
decline from which there has been little recovery to the present.
Destined to Rule the Schools tells the story of women and school
leadership in America from the common school era to the present. In
a broad sense, it offers an historical account of how teaching
became women's work and the school superintendency men's. Blount
explores how power in school employment has been structured
unequally by gender. It focuses on the superintendency because an
important component of the effort to establish control of schools
has occurred in contesting the definition of this position.
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