ABSTRACT
Women have seldom achieved powerful or influential administrative positions in the schools. The movement of men into school administration during the early 1960s resulted in the inability of women to attain status as school leaders. Shakeshaft (1987) explores the obstacles which prevented women from becoming school administrators and consistently kept them in the classroom while men were promoted to administrative positions. Whether the issues involve internal barriers, cultural expectations for women, alternative achievement, motivation or male dominance (Shakeshaft, 1987), there remains a complex pattern of discrimination against women who wish to attain administrative positions.
