Women Leadership
Introduction
Leadership is -“process of social influence in which one person
can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of
a common task.
Processed leadership is –when leaders carry out this process by
applying their leadership knowledge and skills.
It was once common to believe that leaders were born rather than
made.
Definitions of leadership
“Managers are people who do thing right, while leaders are
people who do right thing”.
“The best example of Leadership is leadership by example”.
“The most important quality in a leader is that of being
acknowledge as such.”
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the
things you think you cannot do”
Women in Leadership Roles
First female prime Minister and President - Sirivamo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became world’s first
female elected premier Minister and Isabel Peron of Argentina became first woman President- one woman
had been Acting head of Government and two woman Acting Heads of state before that.
The first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980
presidential election as well as three others to also become the longest-serving non-hereditary female head
of state in history (15 years and 365 days in office).
Annie Besant became the first female president of the Indian National Congress.
In 1925 Sarojini Naidu became the first Indian born female president of the Indian National Congress.
In 1953 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit became the first woman (and first Indian) president of the United Nations
General Assembly
In 1966: Indira Gandhi becomes the first woman Prime Minister of India
Sucheta Kripalani was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. She was India's first woman Chief
Minister, serving as the head of the Uttar Pradesh government from 1963 to 1967.
In 1972 Kiran Bedi becomes the first female recruit to join the Indian Police Service.
Justice M. Fathima Beevi becomes the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Meira Kumar became the first female Speaker of Lok Sabha.
Pratibha Patil became the first female President of India.
Four Key Barriers
Prejudice (Why are men promoted more quickly than women
with equivalent qualifications?)
Resistance to women’s leadership (Why do people find it difficult
to see a woman in a leadership role?)
Leadership styles (Why do women often struggle with taking
leadership?)
Demands of family life (Why do women continue to struggle
with work/life balance?)
Global Scenario
TOP WOMEN CEO'S IN THE WORLD
INDRA NOOYI,CEO,PEPSI .
CATHERINE ELIZABETH,CEO, RADIO ONE.
MURIEL"MICKEY" SIEBERT,PRESIDENT, Muriel siebert&Co
Christina Gold, President& CEO, Western Union.
Andrea Jung, CEO, President,Avon.
Irene Rosenfeld,CEO& Chairperson, Kraft Food.
Susan Ivey,CEO-chairperson,Reynold.
Indian Scenario
Indra Nooyi, Former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
Akhila Srinivasan,md, Shriram Investment Ltd.
Ekta Kapoor, Creative Director,balajitelefilms
PRIYA Paul,chairman,apeejay Park Hotels
RAVINA RAJ KOHLI, MEDIA PERSONALITY & EX-PRESIDENT, STAR News
Zarina Mehta, Chief Creative Officer Of Broadcasting At UTV
Chiki Sarkar, Publisher, Penguin Books India
Ashvini Yardi, Programming Head Of TV Channel Colors
Vinita Bali , MD of Britannia Industries Limited
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon
Preetha Reddy, Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals Group
Ameera Shah, CEO and Managing Director, Metropolis Healthcare
Smriti Nagpal, CEO of Atulyakala
Leena Nair, Executive Director, HR, Hindustan Unilever
Indian Scenario
Archana Bhargava, Chairman and Managing Director, United Bank of India
Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson, State Bank of India (since October 7, 2013)- now
retired
Bala Deshpande, MD, New Enterprise Associates India
Chanda Kochhar (born 1961), ICICI Bank Former MD and CEO
Chitra Ramkrishna, Former Managing Director and CEO, National Stock Exchange of
India
Kalpana Morparia, CEO of South Asia and India Operations at JPMorgan Chase
Kavita Nehemiah, social entrepreneur, Co-founder and COO of Artoo
Manisha Girotra, CEO, Moelis India
Naina Lal Kidwai, Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC India
Renuka Ramnath, founder of Multiples Alternate Asset Management
Snehlata Shrivastava, Executive Director, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development
Usha Sangwan, Managing Director, Life Insurance Corporation of India
Overview of women leadership
Gender & Leadership Styles & Effectiveness
Glass Ceiling
SWOT Analysis
Application of Approach
Gender & Leadership Styles & Effectiveness
(Male vs Female Leadership)
Historically, gender has prohibited most females from becoming leaders in
organizations; as a result, the assumption that males were better suited than
females for leadership roles was, until recently, rarely questioned. Women who
aspire to educational leadership positions in the male- defined structure of
academia can "either live her womanliness up" or she can "live it down". If she
chooses to practice a profession by following the rules and habits long
established by male practitioners she risks offending the old customs defining
female virtue. If she behaves in a professional environment according to
archaic female norms she appears weak.
These contradictions demonstrate the conflict women experience in regards to
how they are expected to behave as women and how they are expected to
behave as professionals.
A male leader is seen as decisive and powerful, with a strong, authoritarian
style. He may be expected to bulldoze through the opposition and act
abrasive at times.
Women in leadership roles face very different expectations. People who are
accustomed to the ‘masculine’ dictatorial style may see women leaders as
too soft or weak, and think that men are better suited for leadership. In
reality, nothing could be further from the truth.
Female leaders tend to be more inclusive and community-driven. They’re
more likely to lead by consensus, rather than try to dictate the rules. The
‘feminine’ leadership style wants others to be involved and take ownership of
the goal so that everyone contributes. The team works seamlessly together
and many different perspectives enrich the problem-solving process. Women
leaders have a variety of techniques for getting people on board, from using
inspiring words to showing how their plans will benefit the bottom line.
Between male and female leadership qualities, female leadership is better
suited for the modern world. In the new business landscape, it’s vitally
important to bring the diversity and inclusiveness in the leadership team.
The Glass Ceiling
The Glass Ceiling
Situation where the advancement of a qualified person within the
hierarchy of an s organization is stopped at a lower level because
of some form of discrimination, most commonly sexism.
believed to be an unofficial, invisible barrier that prevents
women from advancing in businesses.
Types of Glass Ceiling Barriers
Different pay for comparable work.
Sexual discrimination or harassment in the workplace
Exclusion from informal networks Stereotyping and
preconceptions of women's roles and abilities
Failure of senior leadership to assume accountability for women's
advancement
Men tend to be highly concentrated in the top professions:
Supervisors
managers
Executives
production operators
Women tend to be over-represented in the lower-ranking and lower paid professions in the
workforce:
secretaries
sales associates
Teachers
nurses
child care providers
As a result, occupations become “sex typed” as either being specifically male or female jobs.
The Gender Wage Gap
The difference in both the wages and earnings between males and
females who have equivalent job titles, training experience,
education, and professions.
The stereotypically male-characterized occupations, in which at least
60-75% of the workers are males, are more highly paid than
occupations in which 60-75% of the jobholders are women.
This segregation of women into less-prestigious and lower-ranked
jobs also decreases a woman’s chance of being promoted, as well as
the chance of having any type of power over others. Moreover,
occupational segregation reduces women’s access to various benefits.
The gender wage gap is present within all realms of the workforce:
blue collar
managerial
professional occupations.
Only 15 to 20 percent of the top executive positions in America’s largest
corporations and enterprises are held by women.
Additionally, the median weekly income of full-time working women is
only around 70 percent of full-time working men.
SWOT Analysis
STRENTHS
Have better social skills
Are better communicators
Put the success of the team first
Use influencing skills rather than authority
Are better team players
Are more tolerant of differences
Are less bound by social traditions
Are more readily show appreciation for the efforts of others
Are more expressive of their thoughts and feelings
Are more enthusiastic
WEAKNESSES-
Emotional behavior
Back seat of women leader to submit to men leaders
Lack of authoritarianism
Lower expectations than men
Discrimination
Networking
OPPORTUNITIES-
Higher education
Reservations in different sectors
Social support
* 33% of seats at the local government level are reserved for
women.
THREATS-
Sexual Harassment
Family commitment
Support from spouse
Traditional mindset of society
Maintain the balance between work and home
Faces more challenges than men
Application of the Approach
As women lead, they are changing leadership; as they organize, they are changing
organization. When women lead and articulate their purposes, it seems that they
work together not only as individuals but with a sense of community and
networking in a healthy way.
Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, the World YWCA Secretary General, says attitudes
toward leadership are changing and what women offer is essential:
“Domination as a leadership style is becoming less and less popular. There is a new
growing appreciation of those traits that women use to keep families together and to
organize volunteers to unite and make change in the shared life of communities.
These newly admired leadership qualities of shared leadership; nurturance and
doing good for others are today not only sought after but also indeed needed to
make a difference in the world....A feminine way of leading includes helping the
world to understand and be principled about values that really matter.”
CONCLUSION
Women have proved themselves as successful leaders in politics as well as in
various organizations.
Women can now participate in all activities such as education, politics, media,
art and culture, service sectors, science and technology, etc.
There are lots of problems which a woman faces during her career growth.
Women need to be more practical.
Women need to become more aware and updated so they can reposition their
behavior to develop a style that feels right and delivers effective leadership.
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