“…"Absent women discourse" was noted as the lack of data on women in leadership in some contexts (Aiston & Yang, 2017: p. 263). The unequal and in some cases (Chin, 2011;Barmao, 2013;Al-Jaradat, 2014;Samier, 2015;Aiston & Yang, 2017;Nyoni et al, 2017;Mon & Saito, 2018;Tarbutton, 2019;Thorpe, 2019;Iyekolo, Okafar, & Abdulaziz, 2020) were highlighted in the literature evidencing women's struggle to leadership in various geographical locations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, North America and Australia as cited in Table 2.…”