Balancing Family - How Women Are Successful at Home and Work #948418

Women leaders in education struggle to balance work and family life.
Historically, this struggle has stemmed from attempts to manage societal expectations regarding the balance of work and family. In managing these expectations, women leaders face numerous challenges that make it difficult to balance home responsibilities with increasing work demands. For women, these dual responsibilities sometimes make it seem impossible to find the balance they seek in their lives. Although they have made great strides in the past century, women hold only 18% of superintendencies in this country, even though they constitute a majority in the classroom. Women are successfully finding balance; however, the support systems and strategies that enable this success in both the family and work domains are not well known.
The purpose of this book was to identify support systems and strategies that allow women in leadership positions—specifically the superintendency—to maintain balance in work and life.