Amherst Reads Education Lead(her)ship: Advancing Women in K–12

From the publisher:

Education Lead(her)ship exposes the systemic obstacles that impede the professional advancement of women in K–12 education and offers readers the tools to recognize and combat these inequities. In this rousing work, educational leadership scholars Jennie Weiner '00 and Monica Higgins investigate patterns of gender bias in the profession, prompted by the observation that, although the great majority of classroom educators are women, disproportionately few women inhabit leadership positions such as principal, superintendent, or school administrator.

Through candid interviews with more than 200 women educational leaders, Weiner and Higgins pinpoint implicit and explicit means of repression and highlight the resources that these leaders have marshaled to punch through systemic barriers. The interviewees recount the many forms of sexism and racism they have confronted in the workplace, including microaggressions, stereotypes about women's work, and the expectation of uncompensated emotional labor.  

About the author:

Dr. Jennie Miles Weiner is an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Connecticut and was a guest associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in fall 2020. She is affiliated with UConn’s Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research and Evaluation and previously served as the codirector of the school’s EdD program. Her scholarship focuses on issues of educational leadership and organizational change, including teacher leadership and capacity building the impact of gender and racial discrimination in educational leadership. She has recently appeared as an expert on issues of women, leadership, and care work for a variety of events and on media outlets, such as Good Morning America and NPR, as well as on a variety of podcasts and is the co-author of the new book Education Lead(her)ship: Advancing Women in K-12 Administration with Dr. Monica Higgins. She is also the co-author of The Strategy Playbook for Education Leaders with Dr. Isobel Stevenson.