ABSTRACT
Any understanding of the significance of race and gender in the educational system in the United States needs to be based on information about where boys, girls, men and women of various racial and ethnic backgrounds are located in that system. In this chapter we begin by examining the numerical representation by gender and race of students, faculty, leaders and board members. We then take a closer look at the numbers of women in the public school superintendency. In the final section, we offer an overview of explanations for the continued and persistent underrepresentation of women in school leadership.
