This article unveils the aspirations of women student teachers toward being in educational leadership and being willing to serve as servant leaders in their career or leadership journey. It reports on the quantitative aspect of a large-scale, transformative mixed-methods design research. A survey was used to source data from 154 women student teachers enrolled in a higher learning institution for a bachelor’s degree in leadership and management. For data analysis, descriptive statistics from Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26 software were used, and findings were presented in frequencies, Mean (M) and Standard Deviation (SD). The statistical findings from the seven dimensions, which are emotional healing, creating value for the community, conceptual skill, empowering, helping subordinates grow and succeed, putting subordinates first and behaving ethically, were all above the cutoff point. These are indications that women who are student teachers do aspire to be in leadership and be servant leaders. The study thus recommends that women should be empowered on the leadership discourses that can position them on a favorable lane for promotion, to counteract the discrepancies in gender balance in leadership.
Vilakati-Ndlangamandla et al. (Tue,) studied this question.