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Female superintendents in California and the role that mentoring and networking have played in their sucess

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Title	Female superintendents in California and the role that mentoring and networking have played in their sucess
Author	Dudek, Vicky
Author email	vdudek@usc.edu;vldudek@att.net
Degree	Doctor of Education
Document type	Dissertation
Degree program	Education (Leadership)
School	Rossier School of Education
Date defended/completed	2011-11-29
Date submitted	2012-05-06
Date approved	2012-05-06
Restricted until	2012-05-06
Date published	2012-05-06
Advisor (committee chair)	Castruita, Rudy
Advisor (committee member)	Garcia, Pedro Vitale, Julie
Abstract	This study examined the role that mentoring, formal networking, and informal networking have played in the lives of women who have btained the position of superintendent in the state of California. The researcher explored the access that female administrators had to mentors and networks, followed by the perceived benefits they received when they obtained mentors and when they participated in either formal networks through professional organizations, or informal networks with like-minded professionals. The study used a mixed-method approach that collected quantitative data through a 22-question survey sent to female superintendents throughout the entire state of California. Qualitative data was collected by interviewing four female superintendents selected from the emergent survey data. ltogether, the quantitative and qualitative data was triangulated with the literature on female superintendents, and mentoring and networking practices. ❧ Key findings in this study related to mentors include (1) the majority of female superintendents in California have had both male and female mentors in their lives that they deemed as extremely important early in their superintendent career or when trying to obtain the position, (2) women tend to seek more friendship and psychosocial support from their mentors so it is therefore important for them to find somebody similar to themselves to take on that role, and (3) ethnic minority women reported less benefits from their mentor relationships and had a more difficult time in securing a person to mentor them. ❧ Key findings related to networking include (1) women believe they benefitted more from interaction with other professionals at formal networking meetings than the professional development benefits they obtained, (2) ethnic minority women’s comfort level in network settings may prevent them from benefitting from the experience, and (3) women that purposefully calendar and establish informal networking groups with like-minded professionals reported a very high level of benefit and believe it is a function of their job as opposed to a distraction.
Keyword	female; superintendents; mentoring; networking
Language	English
Part of collection	University of Southern California dissertations and theses
Publisher (of the original version)	University of Southern California
Place of publication (of the original version)	Los Angeles, California
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Provenance	Electronically uploaded by the author
Type	texts
Legacy record ID	usctheses-m
Rights	Dudek, Vicky
Access conditions	The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given.
Repository name	University of Southern California Digital Library
Repository address	USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA
Repository email	cisadmin@usc.edu
Archival file	uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-DudekVicky-790.pdf