Women in Leadership Roles: An Agenda for Changedoi:10.1177/0974173920080202DeeptiDeeptiBhatnagarDeeptiNHRD Network JournalBhatnagar, D. (2008) `Women in leadership roles: an agenda for change', NHRD Network Journal, Vol. 2, pp.6-10.
Four years ago, respondents said it would take more than 50 years before their industry would see equal representation of women in leadership roles. To our surprise, respondents in 2023 are decidedly more upbeat, estimating that parity is possible in just a decade. This stunning decline of 44 ...
In today’s India, when we look at leadership roles, it is quite natural to ask why there are so few women in top decision-making positions. Searching for answers led us to look deeply into religious and traditional aspects of India. In this chapter, we
The good news is that bias against female leaders is decreasing, traditional gender roles are changing, and both men and women want more women in leadership roles 7, 8. “Leaky Pipeline” Work–Life Integration Let’s frame this issue with a vignette: there will be a day when you are ove...
Further, explicit expectations and metrics for success in leadership roles are needed to promote balanced evaluations and recognition of the value brought by a broader range of leadership styles. Conclusion Women leaders are under-represented in academic medicine, to the detriment of individual women, ...
The first democratically elected female Prime Minister was Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, who took over the leadership of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party when her husband was assassinated in 1959. Bandaranaike successfully led her party to victory in three elections, in 1960, 1970 and 1994, howev...
While the share of women in the workforce is increasing, it remains difficult for them to reach senior positions, which are mostly held by men. The Qatar National Development Strategy 2011-2016 seeks to increase the number of women in leadership roles by 30 per cent. Perceptions in the GCC ...
The transition point from key management positions to CEO has the highest drop off (59 percent) in women’s representation of any in the pipeline. Over the past three years, the average growth rate across all industries in women taking leadership roles1 stands at 2.8 percent, wit...
The purpose of this study was to examine the leadership roles of women in contemporary white supremacist organizations, with a focus on women in the Ku Klux Klan. The research questions guiding this study were: 1) What are the common leadership practices of women who participate in white suprem...
The term Women’s Studies refers to research covering female existence, with women being studied both as acting subjects and described objects. Using bio-social femaleness as the main analytical category, Women’s Studies focus on human genderedness. Thi