"While women hold nearly eight out of 10 teaching positions in North Carolina, far fewer are found as principals or administrators.
The Asheville Citizen Times reports that slightly more than half of all principals and top district administrators in North Carolina last year were women. That's despite the fact that women hold almost 80 percent of all teaching jobs.
Of all school district superintendents, 84 percent are men. However, the state's top job belongs to a woman. June Atkinson was elected North Carolina's first female state superintendent of public instruction in 2004, although she recently went to court after Gov. Beverly Perdue appointed Bill Harrison to the State Board of Education and made him her choice to run the schools"