Companion Report Proposes Five Strategies for Addressing Gender Gaps and Offers Potential Policy ChangesWASHINGTON, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In a letter released in June , an unprecedented alliance of more than 400 top female leaders in education and their allies have joined in condemning the longstanding gender gaps in education leadership and calling for action at the federal, state and local levels. Organized by the group Women Leading Ed , the alliance includes state commissioners of education, state cabinet leaders, school district superintendents, school district central office leaders, and school administrators. The letter was published alongside a new report from Women Leading Ed, which describes in detail the many obstacles women in education face, and strategies to eliminate them.Despite the fact that the teaching workforce is 80% female, when it comes to the top job, men outnumber women 3:1. Recent research shows that just three in ten district superintendents nationwide are women, a fact that has remained unchanged for nearly a decade. Incredibly, the huge wave of turnover in the "Great Resignation" did nothing to change that. From 2020 to 2022, more than 200 U.S