Patricia Seller's Analysis

When interviewing a leader in an organization in order to discover their leadership style one must ask critical questions. I had the opportunity to interview Casey Aguirre who is a Team Manager at the Salem Call Center for T-Mobile. Casey has been with T-Mobile for over 11 years. In this interview we discussed her leadership style, the steps she took to become a leader, her biggest challenges, and her greatest achievements among other things. While interviewing Casey I kept in mind the connection between women in leadership and the cultural disadvantages and advantages that women in leadership

What drove me to Madden’s writing was the new perspective she had on females and their leadership styles relating to the way they speak up in group environments. The article claimed “one stereotypic dimension women have is that the individual cannot be both competent and friendly” (Madden). The more competent female would be the more comfortable and confident with her argument, therefore willing to speak up in a discussion environment, whereas the friendlier female would be more likely to keep to herself or amongst her friends and peers that

Belonging to a certain group is a natural experience in the lives of individuals. Groups are categorizable by a variety of options but often expel a trait that epitomizes each individual within the group such as rank, societal merit, or simply just appearance. Behaviorism gratifies purpose within cohort mentality among those in an association due to the psychological commonalities that bring these groups together. When it comes to an individual's development within a certain group, joint mentality helps create a safe environment but often times supports ideologies of self empowerment. Anthropologist Karen Ho composes the analysis of students whom graduate Ivy League universities and enter into financial professions, in her essay “Biographies

I am Andrea Price, a Senior at Eastern Wayne High-school. I have a 3.8 G.P.A. and participate in multiple clubs such as National Honors Society, Career and Technical Education Honors Society, FCCLA, FCA, and Key Club. I have a passion for food and want to go to ECU to major in Business in order to run a catering service. My hobbies include cooking, reading, and of course spending time on the internet. I am a very talkative person and I love social gatherings. It would mean the world for me to participate in my school's annual pageant but, I can not do it alone. I need your support! Any and all contributions are accepted thankfully and with much gratitude.

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?

One identified contributor to women's slower than expected assent into leadership is the persistence of assumptions and stereotypes that women are intrinsically "communal" or "dependent" and "passive", and therefore, lack the capacity to succeed as leaders. (National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Engineering Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2006 as cited by Isaac, Kaatz & Carnes, 2012).

Every minute, 310 girls have been married against their will. Most for the reason because the parents needed money for whatever reason or they were trying to resolve conflicts with other families. 25% of these girls have stopped going to school because of their period. Having periods in these undeveloped countries makes these girls officially a women meaning that most of them will be taken out of school to help out at home. In Ethiopia there are 9 millions girls and if all these girls finish school and go into the working force then it would add $4 billion USD to the economy; more than what the country makes in a year. The author of Sold, Patricia McCormick, was successful in her purpose of explaining to American teenagers how and why the cycle of human slavery present in the brothels exist.

Even though the book Sold by Patricia McCormick is a fictional story, the misfortunes that happen to Lakshmi and the girls in sex trafficking take place all around the world. In Sold, the girls at the Happiness House are faced with a myriad of traumatizing experiences that happen in real life to sex victims all around the world. To start off, many traffickers often use verbal and physical violence towards girls to intimidate them into following orders, similar to what Lakshmi and the other girls go through everyday by the owner, Mumtaz, when they disobey the orders given to them while living in the Happiness House. Furthermore, to enter the sex trafficking world, the girls are taken from their poor families who are promised great fortune

The book “Sold” by Patricia McCormick takes the reader and lets them experience life through the eyes of a 13 year old girl. This girls name is lakshmi. Since her society, like others, overemphasizes the value of money and objects, Lakshmi makes the mistake of prioritizing financial support for her family over everything else, including her safety, dignity and any shot at success.

The leadership of these two women echoes the results from the Rudman article. Their leadership attitudes are more egalitarian than are men’s. (Kray, Laura J. 2007). This democratic approach to leadership is due mainly to who each is as an individual. Additionally, this is also the culture of the organizational community. Seeking buy in from those effected by a decision results in better outcomes.

The minute a chance of possibility comes forward the best thing to do is to accept it. Specifically why would anyone want band things to continue if there is a chance it could get better. Ms. Pattillo was chosen to integrate to an all white school, notwithstanding the risks that came along. (Pattillo). Of course everyone is scared of change, but isn’t it always for the better? An allergy is known for damaging the body which people tend to compare positivity with allergy, isn’t that negativity? (Onderko). Anne Frank always tended to have a positive attitude even though her family's situation was awful. (Goodrich and Hackett). Negative things are always going to be apart of life, but everyone has to learn to just accept, including going through

Throughout the span of American history is can be said with confidence that the roles of genders have played a huge role in both the success and downfall of this great nation. From the rural up brings of the Puritans to the successful businessmen and women, politicians, and leaders that have propelled the Untied States to becoming a super power and force to be reckoned with in the world, we are still facing the unfortunate debacle of treating women differently or inferior when it comes to leadership positions. Some of our greatest leaders such as Mary Kay, Condalisa Rice, and Irene Rosenfied have been

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).