-The paper must be in APA format.

-In text citations are needed.

-Reference pages needed. References will need DOI numbers if they have or they will need the location. The sources must be peer reviewed and scholary using the library search criteria.

-Journal articles used must be peer reviewed and scholarly sources, and dated from January 1, 2015 to present.

-Use about 40-50 references
-Qualitative study

-Problem Statement: The problem is that male educational leaders in Maryland are pursuing non-educational leadership career paths instead of leadership career paths in the school district.

-Purpose Statement: The purpose of the qualitative descriptive phenomenological study is to examine the scarcity of male educational leaders in the Maryland school district due to the pursuit of non-educational leadership career paths instead of educational leadership career paths.

-Theories that were approved for study that will be used in some of the sections below. This is a conceptual framework:

The conceptual base for this study will be Carl Rogers’ 1957 theory of personality and Dawis and Lofquist’s 1984 theory of work adjustment because they are closely related to the study’s central phenomenon on perceived views of leadership career paths and the concept of males’ decisions on career paths (Shefer et al., 2017; & Choi, 2017).  The theory of personality encompasses self-actualization, real self, and self-concept, which supports phenomenological research (Lyons & Coyle, 2007).

-The format of the chapter is on the following pages.