Weibliche Karrieren im höheren Schuldienst: Bewährungsmythen, beruflicher Aufstieg und pädagogische Professionalität in den 1960er und 1990er Jahren

'Focusing on the gendered segregation found on the head teacher level, the present contribution seeks to explain, in a perspective of social change across the last decades, the differential participation of women in head teacher positions in the German Gymnasium. As a starting point, the 1960s are highlighted as a unique historical situation with an uncommonly high rate of female head teachers. Wi…