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Olympic Legend Jackie Joyner-Kersee to Address 2025 Women Leading Ed Summit
March 10, 2025
Top female district leaders share do’s and don’ts of climbing the professional ladder in 2025
February 28, 2025
Exclusive: New Survey, Old Story: Women Education Leaders Told To Put Jobs Over Family
February 11, 2025
Sailing through adversity: 4 Olympic-sized lessons in educational leadership
November 19, 2024
June 10, 2024
OPINION: Women education leaders need better support and sponsorships to help catch up
March 19, 2024
Exclusive: Over 80% of Women Leaders in Education Experience Bias, Survey Shows
School Superintendents Attribute Departure from California to Stress, Threats, and Fatigue
December 7, 2023
December 5, 2023
A New Study Details Gender and Racial Disparities in the Superintendent’s Office
Press Release: Women Leading Ed Receives National Funding to Diversify Education Leadership
September 28, 2023
September 13, 2023
Press Release: Gender Leadership Gap in Public Education Persists, Despite Years of Historic Levels of Turnover
Press Release: Margaret Crespo Appointed Women Leading Ed’s Inaugural Superintendent-in-Residence
August 8, 2023
Exploring the Systemic Resistance to Gender Equality in Education Leadership with Julia Rafal-Baer
June 30, 2023
More Than 400 Top Female Leaders in Education and Their Allies Join Initiative to Eliminate Gender Gaps in School System Leadership
June 7, 2023
Women in K-12 Leadership Don’t Get Enough Support. Here’s What Needs to Change
June 1, 2023
What Business Leaders Can Learn From Educators to Get More Women into Leadership
May 4, 2023
March 17, 2023
Women in School District Leadership: Rarer Than You Think
March 14, 2023
How Succession Planning Can Help Close the Gender Gap for Superintendents
March 10, 2023
Gender disparity: New moms need the flexibility new dads in K12 leadership get
March 6, 2023
ILO report shows disparities in wages for men and women
February 24, 2023
School of Thought: the state of school superintendency
December 14, 2022
Why Are So Many School Superintendents Stepping Down?
December 14, 2022
By The Numbers: How Men Are Favored for the Superintendent’s Job
December 14, 2022
Superintendent Turnover Escalates, Women Still Underrepresented
December 13, 2022
Half of nation’s largest school districts changed leaders since pandemic started
The Revolving Door of Superintendents: What It Looks Like in the Nation’s Big Districts
December 12, 2022
December 12, 2022
Report: Half of Largest School Districts Changed Leaders Since Pandemic
It’s Time To Close the Gender Gap in Education Leadership—and Give Women What They’ve Earned
June 9, 2022
June 8, 2022
Are we making progress on closing the superintendency gender gap?
May 11, 2022
Women Get Overlooked for the Superintendent’s Job. How That Can Change
April 7, 2022
Looming School Superintendent Exodus? Survey Shows 1 in 4 Expect to ‘Leave Soon’
Fears of a School Superintendent Exodus: With Data Revealing Massive Pandemic Turnover, New Survey Shows Another 1 in 4 Leaders Expect to ‘Leave Soon’
April 7, 2022
March 11, 2022
The Current State of the Superintendency: 4 Things to Know
March 10, 2022
Why Aren’t There More Women Superintendents?
Vision, Your House in Order, and an Extra $20K: What It Now Takes to Hire a Superintendent
March 2, 2022
February 28, 2022
Superintendent Turnover Is a Real Thing. How Bad Is It?
February 7, 2022
Pandemic to blame for rising district leader turnover
May 15, 2023