The Texas Association of School Boards promotes educational excellence for Texas schoolchildren through advocacy, visionary leadership, and high quality services to school districts. This article documents nine female administrators' stories of their world, qualities of leadership they felt important, and their perceptions of differences in male and female leadership styles. Participants were interviewed using a protocol designed specifically for this study. Implications based on the findings of the study are presented as they affect women in school administration, administrator training programs, college textbooks, hiring practices, and promotional decisions in education. As Mentors gives women from all walks of life a forum to share their stories.
Some women write from a personal perspective, some from a business perspective.
All the articles are meant to help women in various points of their lives. You can be mentored on a corporate level, but if your personal life is a mess, you won't be able to access those lessons to your fullest advantage.