Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the attributes of women school leaders in North Cotabato. A total of 247 public elementary teachers were participated in the study. An exploratory approach was employed in the study by conducting the in-depth interview, focus group discussion, reliability evaluation and conducting a survey. The results showed that there were four major themes were extracted on the attributes of women as school leader which include the strength, perseverance, adoptability and grit attributes; the highest factor of attributes of women as school leader includes being committed, transparent, not corrupt and teachable; there is high significant of attributes of women as school leader with p-value = 0.000; and the tool developed were includes 45 items test questions with high reliability result. Hence, it is recommended that the instrument developed can be used as tool to evaluate the attributes of women as school leaders.