Leadership in Gender Equality in the Workplace
SEYEDEELAHE MEHRDEL
West Coast University
Leadership and Management
Coleen Poitinger
3/16/2017
Leadership in gender equality in the workplace
The need for increased diversity and strong women leadership is an issue in today’s healthcare system. The need for gender equality in healthcare system and number of women participating in medical field are recognized. Although women make up a majority of the United States population (50.8 percent), gender leadership gap remains a huge problem in the healthcare system.
The healthcare and public health systems in the United States face a number of opportunities and serious challenges related to access, quality, cost containment, and
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Recent research shows that lack of confidence is a factor that holds women back from having leadership positions. There is a self- confidence gap between men and women (Schuh et al., 2014). Whereas men are socialized to be confident, assertive, and self-promoting, cultural attitudes toward women as leaders continue to suggest to women that it is often inappropriate or undesirable to possess those characteristics (Enloe, 2004; Flammang, 1997).
Balancing family responsibilities and work is one of the most challenging obstacles for women seeking leadership positions (Eagly & Carli, 2007; Sandberg, 2013), and it can be especially daunting for the millions of working women raising children on their own (Hess & Kelly, 2015). Leadership roles are time consuming and requires a responsible person, which is one of the reasons holding back women from leadership roles.
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Eagly, A. H., & Carli, L. L. (2007). Through the labyrinth: The truth about how women become leaders. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Enloe, C. (2004). The curious feminist:
‘Why we have too few women leaders’ was an address given by Sheryl Sandberg in the year 2010, presenting messages to women if they want to stay in the work force. This topic is a concern to Sandberg because there are small numbers of women who hold prominent leader positions in the world. In her presentation, she states “…, How are we going to fix this? How do we change these numbers at the top? How do we make this different?”
Over the course of our countries history, the delivery of our health care system has tried to meet the needs of our growing and changing population. However, we somehow seem to fall short in delivering our goals of providing quality, affordable and accessible healthcare to our citizens. The history of our delivery system will show we continuously changed the delivery of our system however never mange to control cost. If we can come up with efficient ways to cut cost, the delivery of quality care will follow.
The health care system must change to improve our nation’s health and takes strong steps to address the unsustainable growth of health care costs in America. We still have a long way to go before our health system become effective. We still have population that do not have insurance, have difficulties accessing their health care, or their needs are not met within the healthcare system. It is an investment in prevention and wellness and increasing access to primary care physician.
Leadership - The perception of excellence in business leadership needs to be re-examined. This requires challenging the norms that determine leadership eligibility. Are there drivers that perpetuate a leadership incumbency that excludes females? What is the basis for these drivers?
Healthcare in the United States is facing numerous issues within the current and future turbulent times. I believe that two major issues are the disparity of provision of healthcare to varying societal groups as well as the projected shortfall of healthcare providers to adequately service the population in general.
leaders. However, more people prefer male than female bosses. That has made it more difficult
Our healthcare system needs major restructuring. Major improvements needs to begin with "all health care organizations, professional groups, and private and public purchasers should adopt as their explicit purpose to continually reduce the burden of illness, injury, and disability, and to improve the health and functioning of the people of the United States", (Crossing the ……, 2001).
As we know that, leadership is nothing. But the influencing flowers. Leadership includes three fundamental clusters of skills creating vision, garnering commitment to that vision, an managing progress toward the realization of that vision. powerful and effective leaders plays very vital role to reach the maximum production for any organization.
Research suggest that if when wish to become leaders they need to have a specific plan. Not only a plan but a clear indication of what they want to do and a clear idea of each step they need to take to reach the inevitable goal (McDermott, 2014). Successful women know where they want to be in the company structure
There are many issues that are causing changings in the healthcare system. Population aging, rapidly increasing costs of healthcare and the growing burden of chronic disease are challenges to health systems worldwide. To meet these challenges will require new approaches to healthcare delivery and comprehensive population health management. Many states are not prepared to tackle this issue yet. The US has the most expensive healthcare system in the world with health status indicators that are only average in comparison
As the author points out, the figures on women in leadership is staggering in disparity. The article takes time to focus on identifying and highlighting reasons what makes a successful leader. Having an opportunity to attend a leadership meeting, in which we discussed improving inclusion at my company, this article presented many of the same reasons that as a company we tried to understand, “Why do we not have more women in leadership?” This article really underscores that in order for a business to survive and grow or for that matter, any organization to flourish you need to find individuals that embody the above-mentioned leadership traits not just seniority.
More and more women are rising to the leadership challenge, even in some of the most male-dominated industries. The increase in the number of women attending college, the increasing number of women in the workplace or starting their own business has demonstrated to men who own businesses that women can be both managers and mothers, thus showing their male counterpart that women can in fact "do it all".
Gender and leadership? Leadership and gender? A journey through the landscape of theories start off by giving a statistical summary of percentages of women in higher echelon position in the workforce. With this information in the intro, the article quickly highlights the limited representation of women in exclusive positions in Fortune 500 companies. Next, the paper examines multiple theories why this problem exists in the workforce. The four theories examined are biology and sex; gender role; causal factors; and attitudinal drivers (Appelbaum et al, 2003, p. 44).
A recent American Council of Education report indicated that “Moreover, women now lead a substantially greater share of doctorate-granting institutions, rising from 13 percent in 2001 to 22 percent in 2011”(AACU, 2012). “Unfortunately, higher education administration, traditionally, has followed a hierarchical leadership model that has experienced slow growth in including women in top executive leadership positions” (Henck et Al, 2008). Berkelaar, Pope, Sypher, and Cox (2011) stated that there is a “need for multiple efforts on different fronts to encourage women to develop the skills and abilities necessary for leadership and to encourage their interests in pursuing leadership positions and the
As time progresses seeing women as leaders is becoming more popular. Entrepreneurial women are becoming direct and indirect leaders (Bullough,, Sully De Luque, Abdelzaher, & Heim 2015). With women being in more leadership position it is creating healthier home lives because women are earning their