Model for Promoting the Women Executive to Become the Administrative Position in Basic Education Secondary School under Office of Basic Education

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to construct the model for promoting the women executive to become the administrative position in basic education secondary schools under The Office of Basic Education. This research used both qualitative and quantitative methods. The population was 549 females school administrators under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 1-10. The findings were found that: (1) The factors that promoted the women executive to become the administrative position in basic education secondary school under The Office of the Basic Education Commission were the personal and professional factor (2) Model for promoting the women executive to become the administrative position in basic education secondary schools under The Office of the Basic Education was constructed by using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), which found seven elements of personal factors: (1) commitment (2) self-efficacy (3) confidence to encounter with conflicts (4) work and family balance (5) belief in non-conflicted roles (6) convenience in geographical mobility and (7) support from a spouse. In addition, there were eight elements of professional factors: (1) accessing to men networks (2) building networks among women (3) getting recognition from men (4) standing against women demeaning (5) structure of the equal compensation (6) mentoring and role model (7) image of masculine leader and (8) gender socialization. Furthermore, the second order confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) found that the model for promoting the women executive to become the administrative position in basic education secondary schools under The Office of the Basic Education Commission with all factor loading values passed the minimum statistics thresholds, which was 0.4. Psychological factor was the most loaded element 0.999. For standard error (SE) and t-test, 7 of 8 factor loading values were different with statistical significance at 0.01 level. However, there was only one element, masculine leader image, which factor loading was 0.217. When considering the values of R2 which indicated inversion ratio between latent variable and commonalities, psychological dimension showed the highest value of R2 which was .998, following by political dimension of which R2 was .994. Equality of the structural income gap showed the lowest value of R2 which was .047. Overall, the model was fit with statistical significance at 0.05 level. Thirty experts evaluated that the model for promoting women to become the administrative position in basic education secondary schools under The Office of the Basic Education Commission was a very appropriate model.