‘The women are taking over’: Exploring hegemonic masculinities in elementary principalship
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores the experiences of both male and female principals in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) as they navigate principalship through a gendered lens. Interviews with these principals reveal the presence and impact of hegemonic masculinities on the ability of both male and female principals to lead their schools. These conversations reveal a series of discourses that repeatedly emerged: ‘The women are taking over’; ‘The “detached” male principal’; ‘You’re tough, you can handle it, man’; and ‘I’d rather work for a man’. One would think that the influx of more female principals in the GTA over the past 10 years would inspire positive changes to the role of principal, a role that was largely created by and for men to inhabit. Sadly, this is not the case as both male and female principals continue to uphold hegemony while at the same time struggle under its effects. This article takes the position that principalship provides the potential to create a space where women and men can find agency, a place of resistance that works against the gendered discourses at play in their daily work lives. Unfortunately, it appears that this space does not yet exist, and this article suggests that recognition of the problem is the first step towards finding such a space.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it