The Impact of Familism and the Good Daughter Dilemma on Hispanic Female Leaders in South Texas Border Public School Districts

• In Event: 54.080 - Roundtable Session 22
  In Roundtable Session: 54.080-7 - Overcoming Gender Bias While Leading Education

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of familism through personal experiences of practicing female educational leaders in order to better understand whether the construct of familism served as a support or a hindrance from the perspective of successful Hispanic female administrators who held leadership roles in public school districts along the border of south Texas. In order to better understand impactful factors that may influence the Hispanic female either positively or negatively, the phenomenon of familism must be studied for its significance in the lives of Hispanic female leaders in South Texas border public school districts.

Authors

• Cynthia Laura Villarreal, Texas A&M University - Kingsville

• Don Jones, Texas A&M University - Kingsville

• Gerri Marie Maxwell, Texas A&M University - Kingsville