BARRIERS TO WOMEN EDUCATIONAL LEADERS IN PAKISTAN: IMPACT ON WOMEN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

As regarding to exploring, the barriers and issues which women educational leaders have faced in their career path to sustain their leadership and executive status in educational administration in sindh province of Pakistan, the study is also lustrating the impacts on their leadership development. Applying qualitative research study which is qualitative by method and descriptive in purpose, the data was collected from 16 women leaders currently working on higher level positions in education & literacy department of sindh, which are belongs to sindh. Using the semi-structured interview tool data from 16 women leaders were collected. The purposive Sampling technique was used in this research study. The design of this research study is phenomenology, the lived experiences about the phenomenon. the findings of the study were coming to light by the themes and lived experiences have a huge impact and importance on women leader’s leadership development. Further that, Women leaders met to different barriers in their career path which lead to them in hard situations regarding their leadership development and effects on their capabilities and skills. To cope with these all barriers, the women educational leaders have pointed out the professional development trainings, overcome to gender discrimination, family support, overcome to socio cultural issues. The study therefore recommends that for empower women educational leaders to cope with the barriers successfully, professional trainings and workshops in order to educational leadership and administration must be arranged for educational leaders, an appropriate method of induction for new leaders, and some effective policy level changes are required