Overview for Part I / Dorothy Bassett -- Women in educational leadership in England / Marianne Coleman -- Conscious leadership in a political world / Margaret Grogan and Charol Shakeshaft -- Disappearing gender: choices in identity / Jacky Lumby -- Overview for Part II / JoAnne E. Burley and Pamela Lenz -- Status of educational leadership and female participation: the case of Tanzania / Sister Hellen A. Bandiho -- Ugandan women: moving beyond historical and cultural understandings of educational leadership / Alice Merab Kagoda and Jill Sperandio -- Women on the rise: women navigating across social, political, economic and cultural arenas to claim their stake in educational leadership positions in South Africa / Thidziambi Phendla -- Overview for Part III / Joyce A. Dana -- Re/positioning women in educational leadership: the changing social relations and politics of gender in Australia / Jill Blackmore -- Women's leadership in educational decentralization and parental involvement: the case of Hong Kong / Esther Sui-chu Ho -- Chinese women's participation in educational leadership: a review and analysis of the current situation / Haiyan Qiang, Juan Han and Xiaoyan Niu -- Women and educational leadership in New Zealand and Melanesia / Jane Strachan -- Overview for Part IV / Eileen Zungolo -- Leadership, change and gender: reflections of Greek and U.S. women leaders / Linda L. Lyman, Anastasia Athnasoula-Reppa and Angeliki Lazaridou -- Women and educational leadership in a Muslim society: a study of women college heads in Pakistan / Saeeda Shah -- Preparing women for educational leadership: opportunities in nonformal education in Bangladesh / Jill Sperandio -- Overview for Part V / Marilyn L. Grady and Bettie Bertram -- Gender mainstreaming at German universities: successful strategies of implementation / Quirin Johannes Bauer and Susanne Gruber -- Portraying women administrators: Turkish cases / Mustafa Celikten -- Gender mainstreaming: women in leadership and "the physics of calamities" / Hildegard Macha and Stephanie Handschuh-Heiss -- Overview for Part Vi / Sharon Adams-Taylor and Claudia Fahrenwald -- Women in educational leadership: the relationship between contextual factors and women's careers in educational leadership / Maria Luisa González and Flora Ida Ortiz -- Communicative actions: Brazilian women in educational leadership / Rosangela Malachias -- A photographic journey of discovery: women and children living in Dominica, West indies / Katherine M. Houghton -- Epilogue: energy, spirit and light: the journey's end and beginning / Helen C. Sobehart.