Gender and Education Towards New Strategies of Leadership and Power is the second publication of the Women Leading Education (WLE) Network. It presents the proceedings from the Second International Conference held in 2009 at the University of Augsburg in Germany. Invited researchers and practitioners from a growing number of countries throughout the world discussed the issues facing women in basic and higher education, clarified understanding, and determined the means by which they could most effectively provide increasing illumination for this critical aspect of social justice. Along with the University of Augsburg, the Women's Special Interest Group (SIG) of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee/USA, and the Duquesne University in Pittsburg/USA provided generous support for this conference. This publication deals with the proceedings from the Second International Conference Gender and Education Towards New Strategies of Leadership and Power of the Women Leading Education (WLE) Network.

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Dr. Hildegard Macha is Professor and Chair of Education and Adult Education in the
Philosophical
Faculty of the University of Augsburg, Germany. She is the Women's Representative
of the
University of Augsburg and Director of the Gender Centre Augsburg. Her research
interests include
gender studies, theory of education, family education, and adult continuing
education. Current
research projects and publications are Gender Mainstreaming Processes at
Universities in Germany -
Balancing and Optimizing (2009) together with Q. Bauer, S. Struthmann and S.
Gruber; Collaborative
Teacher Leadership and Peer Coaching (2009), together with A. Lödermann; Gender
Mainstreaming
at the University of Augsburg (2009), together with S. Handschuh-Heiss, M.
Magg-Schwarzbäcker
and S. Gruber; and the Handbook of Family Research (2009), edited together with M.
Witzke. Dr. Quirin J. Bauer is an Assistant at the Student Counselling Centre at University Augsburg in Germany. In 2010 he received the science award of the Swabian Trade Association for his doctoral thesis. He also serves as a Course Leader at the University of Applied Sciences (field: International Office) and at the University (field: Social Science) of Augsburg, Germany. Dr. Bauer is the Equal Opportunity Commissioner at the University Augsburg, Germany. Dr. Claudia Fahrenwald is working as a Professor of Education at the University of
Hamburg. She
also is a research scholar at the Gender Center at the University of Augsburg. Her
areas of interest are
organizational learning, intercultural learning and gender. She worked on a
Trans-Atlantic Research
Project about women in educational leadership and has published on gender related
issues in national
and international contexts. Since 2010 she is the Women's Representative of the
Department of
Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of Augsburg.