Gender gaps and disparities in education leadership were significant before the pandemic began. Right now, as a country, we’re going in the wrong direction.” Children deserve to benefit from the full pool of talent that’s there, and they also need to be able to see themselves in their leaders. “It’s not just a moral imperative to close gender gaps in district leadership around the country. Despite being equally if not more qualified to lead than their male counterparts, for too long, women have faced an uphill battle in reaching those top jobs, and our new data suggest that the pandemic has made that climb even steeper,” ILO Co-Founder and Managing Partner Dr. Compounding that challenge, those being hired to lead school systems in this time of national educational crisis are overwhelmingly men. “Just when school systems need steady leadership and stability, nationwide we’re seeing potentially historic turnover. The new data looks at the 500 largest school districts in the U.S., exploring both turnover in leadership during a time of crisis but also how an already egregious gender gap in the sector is widening. ILO Group, a women-founded national education strategy and policy firm, today released a new analysis on the COVID-19 pandemic that showed significant turnover among school superintendents, as well as a dramatic and widening gender gap in district leadership across the U.S.
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