Women and Leadership

Abstract

Despite the proliferation of leadership research in the past 75 years, investigating the ways in which women and men leaders enact and experience leadership continues to surface unanswered questions. Through the framework of selection, development, leadership style, and performance, we report gender-related findings from a broad survey of existing literature from the past three decades. Findings include differential rates of selection for women and men leaders; leader development considerations that vary by gender; evidence in favor of general similarities in leadership style (with noted exceptions) between women and men leaders; and similar performance outcomes between women and men leaders. The importance of context, be it job type, group composition, organizational culture, or industry/sector, was also revealed. Implications for practitioners and academics alike are offered throughout this report.

Inclusiveness of Jordanian women in local decision‐making process: Opportunities and threats

“…Through the current literature review, it revealed that these hindrances block their representation in decision-making positions, because of to their bosses' misunderstanding of their roles in decision-making positions made them reluctant to get them promoted them into decision-making positions. This finding is consistent with the results shown in many of the reviewed articles (Abu-Hummour, 2016;Gipson et al, 2017). Also, some employer prefers men when hiring and promoting staff as a result of what some call "glass ceiling effect" (Profeta, 2017).…”

“…Women in decision-making positions research has been noticeably flourished and continues to get scholars' attention in academia (Gipson, Pfaff, Mendelsohn, & Burke, 2017). This section presents opportunities of women and decision-making process including leadership aspiration, affirmative action, and human rights of women.…”

“…This section reports gender-related result from a wide current literature from the past 30 years (Gipson et al, 2017) that highlight gender stereotype; leader selection and leader development vary by gender.…”

“…Even though women's representation in decision-making positions research is growing in the past 70 years, addressing the dearth of feminists' inclusiveness in decision-making process continues to highlight unanswered questions and interest to practitioners (Gipson et al, 2017). It is always the debate scholars keep addressing-how to get women access to upper level positions.…”

Leadership as an attribute of management style of women from the Silesian Voivodeship

“…Since at least the 1930s, the definition of leadership has been a topic of scholarly and popular debate, yet a generally agreed-on definition has yet to emerge (Northouse 2015). Leadership, in all of its forms -whether in organisations, politics, uniformed public services or even sportcontinues to attract attention of public opinion (Gipson and Pfaff et al 2017). When analysing leadership, it is worth pointing out that it is a special type of power.…”