Abstract
It is no secret that few women are high school principals and that their number is declining. Nor is it unusual for a treatise to be written urging affirmative action in the em ployment of women as principals. But what about women who are principals? Are women the exception or the rule? The author of the lead article in this special section reviews this question.
Other writers represented here offer advice to the job- seeker, compare male and female leadership styles, review current research on women and the principalship, and note positive suggestions to generate change.
The editors believe this special report to be a balanced examination of an acknowledged problem.
1. D. R. Byrne, et al., The Senior High School Principalship, Volume I: The National Survey, (Reston, Va.: NASSP, 1978).
2. S. Paddock, "Careers of Women Administrators" (Ph.D. diss., The University of Oregon, Eugene, 1977).
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