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Personal, Professional, And Educational Characteristics Of Illinois Women Superintendents In 1987, Joyce Simpson Kaufman

Masters Theses

This study reviewed the personal, professional, and educational characteristics of the Illinois women superintendents in 1987. A questionnaire was mailed to the twenty-two women superintendents. Eighteen of them replied.

The three specific problems addressed by the study were:

1. What are the personal, professional, and educational characteristics of Illinois women superintendents in 1987?

2. What are the special problems encountered by women superintendents?

3. What advice do the present women superintendents in Illinois offer to women aspiring to become superintendents?

The responses were based on the perceptions of the eighteen women superintendents who replied. The questionnaire results were reported in …

Relationship Of Role Strain And Managerial Level In Adult College Women, Frances Hudson Murphy

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Adult women are enrolling in colleges at a growing rate. From the mid-1960's to the mid-1970's higher education institutions experienced an increase in students due primarily to a rapid increase in the traditional college-age population. After several years of narrow fluctuation, enrollment figures began to rise again as a result of increased participation of older adults, especially women (The Condition of Education, 1985).