Who does what at your place? Women educational leaders’ experiences of gender‐segregated work

Abstract

Draws on excerpts from interviews with six women teacher/leaders in Taranaki, New Zealand to explore arguments that in Western cultures men maintain power and control of the sexual division of labour in the home, which is allied to a sexual division of labour at work. Uncovers some of the links between the women’s home and school experiences in their accounts of their negotiations of what have commonly been seen as contradictory subject positions of leader/wife; mother/career woman. Shows from the women’s stories about their personal lives and aspirations, however, that for reasons that were quite complex, some of them were themselves maintaining gendered divisions of labour. Suggests some implications for further research.

Citation

Court, M. (1997), "Who does what at your place? Women educational leaders’ experiences of gender‐segregated work", Women in Management Review, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 17-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/09649429710162901