[integraton]

> Somehow, the majority of principals in elementary education are white men.

No, they aren't.

From http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2013/2013313.pdf

"The percentage of public school principals who were female was 52 percent overall, 64 percent in primary schools..."

[mroset]

Take a look at this [1] article, especially the first chart.

True, a slight majority of principals are women, but it's much more illustrative to look at the career progression. Those selected to be moved up the career ladder are clearly primarily men.

1 - http://www.womenonbusiness.com/men-women-the-glass-escalator...

[SwellJoe]

Cool. That's improved remarkably in the past couple of decades. Every principal I ever had was a white male, and the balance for most of the history of our public education system was way off.

Of course...I wonder how it looks when you go even further up the executive chain in public education?

Nonetheless, it is not our topic of discussion here. Tech is remarkably unbalanced, and we've been told countless times by countless women why it is remarkably unbalanced (or at least a big enough part of the reason for us to want to do something about it).

Edit: Also, you know nothing of my political beliefs, and my political beliefs have no bearing on what women have said about their experience in tech fields.

[eclairekid]

Its a little disingenuous to shift the goalposts about female/male principals to going up the executive chain.

What's really clear, is things are changing quickly, and perhaps we all need to reevaluate our beliefs and bias with current research.

[SwellJoe]

It is disingenuous to continually change the subject from the gender imbalance in tech, particularly when we're talking about an article by someone who has first hand experience about why that imbalance has developed.