This week in Just This, Rick and I discuss a groundbreaking story by Rivard Report education reporter Emily Donaldson about the paucity of women superintendents in Bexar County’s 15 public school systems.
The lead photo on Donaldson’s story illustrates the startling reality: Although women comprise 70 percent of the teachers and principals in the county’s 15 public school districts, only one woman holds a superintendent’s job. Men exclusively occupy the top jobs running districts with tens of thousands of students and, predictably, earn the most lucrative salaries doing so.
We discuss the numbers – superintendencies and principalships by gender, and superintendent salaries, among others – with telling data visualizations provided by Emily Royall, our data editor. We also examine the social, cultural, and political trends behind the numbers.
Join us every Friday for Just This. Listen in, and send us your feedback. Just This, produced by photo editor Scott Ball, will be available here on the Rivard Report and on iTunes and Stitcher at 5 a.m.
People should in general think in terms of qualifications. I feel we as a race of people need to look at the job at hand and stop looking at color, male, female, and age. We judge people the second we meet them. And we can blame that on the privileged of the who knows who. We are all in spirit the same but the public is blinded by what we are taught from the day we are born. This will not change until we pull away from social media, TV, crappy food, etc. and get back to the basic values of living in truth. I am talking about creative living. Change starts when we are tired of hearing the same negative words after another YouTube, Tedtalks provides more ideas and fresh approach to change; take what you want and trash the rest. Wake-up. It’s called freedom.
great post