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Women in Educational Leadership Part 2 highlights how Women in Higher Education Leadership face distinctive and often invisible burdens resulting from gendered expectations, systemic inequities, and the emotional labor inherent to their professional roles. Despite these pressures, women leaders demonstrate exceptional resilience, employing adaptive strategies that redefine leadership authenticity, well-being, and equity in academia.
The chapters found in this book progress from analyzing systemic challenges to highlighting adaptive strategies, ultimately emphasizing wellness, inclusion, and transformative leadership within higher education. By employing multiple qualitative methodologies across multiple mediums, emergent themes of emotional labour and adaptive resilience are identified, and discussed in relation to personal experience, identity, and emotional regulation influence leadership efficacy, institutional climate, and organizational culture in higher education.
Women in Educational Leadership Part 2 offers actionable insights that bridge feminist theory, organizational psychology, and educational leadership studies to be able to advance scholarship on gender equity, emotional intelligence, and well-being in professional leadership. It reveals how women transform emotional labor into a source of empowerment, develop innovative coping mechanisms, and advocate for systemic reform inside higher education institutions.
Along with Women in Educational Leadership Part 1 it challenges institutions to replace endurance with equity and to recognize the transformative power of women leading—with purpose, compassion, and strength.
Amy M. Sloan is a faculty member in Baylor University’s EdD program in Learning and Organizational Change.
Niccole A. Kopit is the Chief Academic Officer at Laurus College.
Chapter 1. Combating Invisibility: Strategies of Black Women Leaders in Research Administration; Rashonda Harris
Chapter 2. Navigating the Double Bind: Challenges and Resilience in Educational Leadership; Heather Bailie Schock and Catherine R. P. King
Chapter 3. Fiercely Focused: How Women’s Lived Experiences Influence their Approach to Leadership; Jana Hunzicker, Amanda Scott, Deborah Erickson, and Rachel Borton
Chapter 4. Self-Care for Higher Education Leaders Doing Gender-Equity Work: Title IX Administrators’ Perceptions and Experiences; Rebecca S. Natow
Chapter 5. Exploring the Challenge of Emotional Labor for Women Higher Education Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Cassandra A. Heath
Chapter 6. The Perceptions of Emotional Labor Among Black Female Professionals in Higher Education in the Midwest; Janay Alston-Burnett and Amy M. Sloan
Chapter 7. "This is damaging to me!" Female Faculty Voices, Student Behavior, and Emotional Labor in Higher Education; Sarah E. Grace
Chapter 8. Work-Life Balance Strategies and Support Systems for Women in Higher Education: A Qualitative Investigation; Kellie L. Playter, Ashlie J. Andrew, and Lori B. Doyle
Chapter 9. Intimate Partner Violence, Appeasement, and women in Higher Education; Nichole E. Stanford