Women's Representation in the Management of Faculties of Education

Abstract

This study aims to examine the distribution of men and women at the management levels of educational faculties that train teachers who will form the future generations. For this purpose, the information of universities with faculty of education was obtained from the statistics of the Higher Education Information Management System. A total of 80 faculties of education were analyzed descriptively according to the data on the official websites of the dean, vice dean, department chair, program head. The results have revealed that the male dean ratio is about 5 times higher than the female ones and the male vice dean ratio is 2.5 times higher than that of females. Based on these results, it is seen that the presence of female academics in the senior management positions of the faculties of education remains in a noticeable minority, and the situation is not very optimistic in the middle-level management positions. Another result obtained from the study is the limited representation of women in management positions in departments of Mathematics Science Education, Turkish Social Science Education and Computer and Instructional Technology Education. In the last part of the study, practical implications were presented to improve the representation of women in academic management.