Destined to Rule the Schools - Women and the Superintendency, 1873-1995 (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series, Educational Leadership
Release date:	March 1998
First published:	March 1998
Authors:	Jackie M. Blount
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-3730-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-7914-3730-2
Barcode:	9780791437308

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