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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED149437 AUTHOR: Pancrazio, Sally Bulkley
TITLE: Ms. Administrator and the School Boards or Should
School Boards Hire Lady Bosses?
YEAR PUBLISHED: (1977)
NOTE: 15 p.
ABSTRACT: Women account for 63 percent of the teaching
force but only 8 percent of the total general
administrative positions in downstate Illinois schools.
Since 1950, women's presence in administrative positions
has declined, especially in regard to the elementary
principalship. Women administrators tend to be older, with
more experience, and earn lower salaries than their male
counterparts. When candidates for administrative positions
are restricted to one sex, there is no way of knowing that
the best person for the job will be selected. As part of
responsible citizen behavior, school board members must
take positive steps to ensure that Illinois schools are
staffed by the most competent, qualified, and talented
people. Selecting the administrators of Illinois schools is
too important to be left to irrelevant factors like gender.
(Author/MLF)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Elementary-Secondary
Education; Personnel-Data; Salaries-; School-Statistics;
Tables-Data
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Administrators-;
*Board-of-Education-Role; *Employed-Women;
*Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; *Sex Discrimination
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