Educating Female learners is educating the whole generation. Female managers are faced with physical as well as psychological challenges. Female managers have to balance work at work as well as work at home. Female head teachers face managerial challenges when heading institutions. These challenges are prominent in schools partly due to male dominated world. Cultural orientations and Stereotypes demand that female teachers to be submissive. That female teachers go for maternity leave hence a great challenge i deciding whom to leave in charge.

Women have been marginalized for long even in the management of educational institutions where there is inequality. This book deeply examines participation of women in Boards of Governors of public secondary schools in Kenya. Women are under represented in the boards due to factors which emanate from the society, the government and the women themselves. Women also face challenges which are unique to their gender.