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What brings career satisfaction to women administrators?
Fewer than half of all Americans are satisfied with their jobs, according to a representative sample of 5,000 households surveyed in early 2007 for The Conference Board, a nonprofit business membership and research organization.
Not surprisingly, youngest workers are the most dissatisfied--as are those earning $15,000 or less each year. But workers ages 45-54 expressed the second lowest level of satisfaction; fewer than 45% reported being happy in their current job. How do the results of that study play out in academe, especially among female administrators?
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At the University of Nebraska's conference on Women in Educational Leadership held in Lincoln in October, Dr. Sandra Seay, assistant professor of educational leadership at East Carolina University, reported results of her study of both first-generation and "continuing generation" women administrators. What factors affect their career satisfaction and development?
The study
Seay designed a 62-item online survey based on those by members of Women Administrators in North Carolina Higher Education--a branch of the American Council on Education--done in 1993, 1994 and 1997. The surveys sought both demographic information and respondents' views on work climate and work development.
She used some questions from the original surveys and added others to determine what first-generation women administrators--those who were first in their family to earn bachelor's degrees--thought of their experiences.
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