This book examines the lives of women heads of schools in Kenya; their experiences of becoming and being school leaders. It explores how women headteachers personal and professional gendered experiences impact upon their practices. The study drew upon Western research and concomitant methods on gender issues in education and a critical realist perspective. It established that women headteachers are inadequately prepared to take up leadership positions; they have to cope with conflicting demands arising from their roles as school leaders, wives, mothers and sometimes as sole breadwinners in...