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The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the relationship between the emotional intelligenceand gender of the principal, and teacher's perceptions of the principal's leadership effectiveness. Theresearcher administered the Emotional IQ Test (Jerabek, 1998) to 32 randomly selected principals. Onehundred and sixty randomly selected teachers in the buildings of these administrators then took the observerform of the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) (Kouzes & Posner's, 2001) to measure the leader'sperceived effectiveness. The leadership practices and gender were correlated to the two aspects of emotionalintelligence to determine possible relationships. Findings show that principals with higher emotionalintelligence are perceived to be more effective. Overall, women have a higher EQ than their malecounterparts and the building level assignment had a significant impact on how principals were perceived.