WOMEN AND POWER IN SCHOOLS.

The article examines the influence of schools as public entities that reflect the inequalities of communities with a particular focus on issues of gender inequality. Gender inequity and perceptions of women and power in school leadership are compared before and after the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957 in the Kentucky school system. The concepts of communitarianism, Deweyan democracy, and standpoint feminism as a framework to study gender equity in school leadership are explained. The increase in the number of females in the principalship in Kentucky schools between 1989 and 2005 is discussed.