The Most Undervalued Leadership Traits of Women, by Glen Llopis

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).

Times have changed; but, women still have a long way to go. Today, women are considered to have equal rights; but, is it really true? Old stereotypes still exist in many things. Even though women have worked hard for the rights that now exist, are now important part of any country’s labor force, the acknowledgment and acceptance of women leaders are far from our reality. The path to leadership for women is often full of obstacles that may be categorized as

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

The book I will be discussing in this report is “The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life: How Remarkable Women Lead” by Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston. The book is a compilation of successful women leaders’ stories and interviews over a span of time. These interviews and stories that were compiled were analyzed by a research project labeled as The Center Leadership Project. After analyzing these stories, interviews, and surveys the team noticed some similarities from these successful women leaders. These similarities then helped to create a model for successful women leaders. The model had some preconditions, women needed to first possess the desire to lead, have the talent and knowledge in their field, and also have the capacity for change

The term "leaders" refers to persons holding formal positions of leadership in complex organizations in

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?

I am requesting 4 advanced level credits for my knowledge, experience and development relating to Women in Leadership. In support of my request, I will address four significant areas relating to women in leadership roles relative to my own personal challenges: The history of women in both secular and non-secular employment and the challenges they face; how women lead in comparison to men; and the changing attitudes towards women taking lead roles in business.

3.2 What are the characteristics of effective women leaders and what are the conditions for effective leadership

• The objective is to identify and understand the underlying obstacles and potentials of women’s effective leadership and advancement.

Does gender affect the ability of an individual to become an effective leader? Some researchers believe that effective leaders are just born while others believe that effective leadership can be learned. But few of these researchers discuss the difference that gender may make in becoming good leaders. When we take a look back through history, we can see that the evaluation of women leaders was slow. Today, only 2.4 percent (Gettings, Johnson, Brunner, & Frantz, 2009) of the Fortune 500 Company 's are lead by women which is an increase from the 1.2 percent (www.money.cnn.com) of female Chief Executive Officers in 2002. The gender differences in the corporate world posses several issues for the Human Resource Managers such as management

How are women good leader in this world. I think women have better work ethics to be leaders in their business. “It is that 6 out of 10 women want to be a senior leader in their company”(KPMG research 2). That means 60% of women want to lead their company and be a great leader for the company. As a leader “you have to teach others how to be leader.” Statistics say women at a young age, we’re taught how to be leaders.“67% of women reported they’d learned the most important lessons about leadership from other women”(KPMG Key findings 6). “The kpmg took 3,104 U.S. women (2,140 professional working women and 604 college women) between ages of 18 and 64 were surveyed as part of the study. Specifically, the study sought to identify how these women were socialized to leadership

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".

As we know, the number of female presidents in higher education is on the rise. What caused this increase? How do these women differ from their male counterparts? Are women adjusting their personality in the workplace to fit that of a male-dominated level or style of leadership? Is there equality between men and women for the same levels of leadership? What personality traits exist in women that make them great leaders? This new phenomenon has piqued my interest because my career is in higher education and it is my intent to work my way to an executive position within a college or university. At one point in time, women were not considered tough enough to handle a position of power. Today, women are

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).

Thesis: Women all over the world are facing obstacles that are preventing them from obtaining managerial and corporate jobs in their chosen field of work, although they possess great leadership skills and qualities that allows them to shine and excel as leaders.