The number of women in public education in Texas has stayed relatively the same while the number of administrators has shown a significant increase. In 1985-86, women comprised 77 percent of the public school workforce but only 29 percent of its leadership positions. For the superintendency, the top leadership position in Texas public schools, very little change has taken place. In comparing 1994-95 statistics to the earlier figures about males and females in public education, most observations continue to be true. Women still dominate public schools and still make up the larger percentage of teachers and support staff positions.
Males still dominate the highest leadership positions in public schools.
Optimistically, women represent almost half of all administrative positions in public schools in the state of Texas. It took 10 years for women to increase from 29 percent of administrative positions to 45 percent of administrative positions. Linda Cantu is a research associate in the IDRA Division of Research and Evaluation.