Act as mentors to programme participants Act as coaches to programme participants Leadership 11268 Leadership and education 3513 Leadership and schools 2559 Leadership on gender or race or diversity 1764 Leadership and principals 1608 Leadership and superintendents 557 Leadership and gender 650 Leadership, schools, and gender 255 Leadership, principals, and gender 245 Leadership, superintendents and women 94 Leadership, superintendents and gender 93 Leadership, schools and diversity 73 Leadership, superintendents and race 9 Leadership, superintendents and minority 12 Leadership, race women and schools 9 Leadership preparation and gender 4 Leadership preparation and race 0 Adapted from Rusch (2004) 2.2 Race and gender in leadership development According to Bush (2005), the past few decades have seen a significant increase in women entering the workplace, however, there is still a significant under-representation of women in senior leadership positions. At the same time, there has been a slow increase in previously (and currently) under-represented groups in the workplace. For example in South Africa, the 2008-2009 report of the Employment Equity Commission showed that whites males and females held 72.8% while Blacks, Coloureds and Indians held 24.2% (the remaining 3% were held by foreign nationals) of top management positions. The 2010-2011 report indicated a similar situation, where 73.1% of top management positions are held by white individuals and 81.1% of top management positions being held by males. Gender equality progression has also been relatively slow in South Africa. The continued slow progress of women advancing into management has been documented annually in the