EAN: 9783319721811

WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP GEBUNDEN

This empowering volume presents current empirical findings and rich personal insights into the
evolving challenges women face in attaining¿and thriving in¿leadership positions. Contributors
add new voices to emerging and familiar topics  including leadership styles and traits  growth
and learning experiences within career paths  mentoring and entrepreneurial aspects of
leadership  and workplace and societal resistance to women in roles of power. Representative
first-person accounts shed significant light on real-world double standards and double binds
(including the unique obstacles faced by minority women)  why the glass ceiling still exists 
and steps still needed to dismantle it. Coverage also addresses related legal issues  such as
the ongoing fight against pay inequities and conflicts between the DeVos rules and Title IX
regulations in the schools. Included among the topics: · · Turn ah-ha moments into pivotal
learning. · The important role of women in social entrepreneurship. · Focus group becomes
support group: women in educational leadership. · Issues confronting women leaders in academia:
the quest for equality. · Leadership means using the courts to demand equal enforcement of and
protection for women's constitutional and civil rights. · Organizations concerned with women
and leadership. Whether one¿s interest is local or global  scholars and students in courses on
leadership  career development  and women¿s studies will find Women and Leadership inspiring
and stimulating in myriad domains  from research and business to politics and policy.

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