Drawing together diverse research perspectives and theoretical underpinnings, this handbook explores gender as a social category and examines cultural and social differences. Bringing together diverse perspectives from around the world, including from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the UK and the USA, the volume sets out the gender and educational leadership and management field, providing a snapshot of the field as it stands, signalling its development and directions for future development. It offers focused reviews of empirical research on particular aspects of the field and presents new insights from research findings and methodological approaches. This book brings together a remarkable cadre of international authors, who take up critical tensions in our educational leadership settings, disrupting binaries and challenging historical conceptualizations of leadership. Grappling with these tensions leads to intersectional understandings, implications for transforming the ways that we conceptualize gender and leadership, and new pathways that could help us disrupt and reimagine leadership for a more just world. Essential reading for anyone committed to leadership for justice and equity.