ERIC Number: ED603797
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Publication Date: 2017-Apr-29
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A Narrowing or Widening of Opportunity Gaps? Mapping Historical Trends in the Influence of Race and Sex on the Likelihood of Teachers Becoming Principals
Davis, Bradley W.; Anderson, Erin
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Antonio, TX, Apr 27-May 1, 2017)
We investigate whether the career opportunities afforded to aspiring principals have become more equitable over time. Controlling for a wide variety of individual and contextual characteristics, we employ discrete-time hazard modeling to predict the probabilities of teachers at the various intersections of race and sex entering the principalship. We then calculate group means of these predictions, which are collapsed over academic years. Results indicate that the likelihood of women entering the principalship, while having improved in recent years, still lags behind those of men. Investigation of gaps constructed round the intersectionality of race and sex reveal a historically rigid status quo, whereby White educators, both male and female, have maintained a substantial advantage in the pathway to the principalship.
Descriptors: Principals, Career Development, Sex, Race, Occupational Aspiration, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Probability, Women Administrators, Whites, Educational Trends, Public Schools, Teachers, Racial Bias, Gender Bias, Disproportionate Representation, Social Justice
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas
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