Gender and Leadership: A Call to Action

Shea, Heather D.; Renn, Kristen A.

doi:10.1002/yd.20242

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“…Meaningful engagement is transformative . Our finding that meaningful engagement and environments influence the leader identity of girls and young women aligns with previous research (Renn and Lytle, 2010; Archard, 2013; Shea and Renn, 2017). Priest and Middleton (2016) asserted that there is a “reciprocal and recursive relationship between leader identity and leader development” (p. 44) and that leadership engagement increases “identity and skill” (p. 45).…”

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Girls’ and young women’s leader identity development: a scoping review

Dixon

Niewoehner-Green

Smulowitz

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Purpose This scoping review aims to examine peer-reviewed literature related to girls’ (age 0–18) and young women’s (age 19–30) leader identity development. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a scoping review. A research librarian was consulted at the start of the project. Two sets of search terms (one for each age group) were identified and then used to find publications via our selected databases. The search results were uploaded to Covidence and evaluated using the determined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The final sample of articles for the review was analyzed using exploratory coding methods. Findings From the analysis, four domains were identified that influence girls’ and young women’s leader identity development: relationships, personal characteristics, meaningful engagement and social identities. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to solely explore girls’ and young women’s leader identity development. The factors and domains identified provide useful guidance for future research and practice. The findings reveal considerations about leader identity that can inform the creation of effective leadership development initiatives for girls early in their lifespan. These interventions could provide girls with a strong leadership foundation that could drastically alter their leadership trajectories in adulthood. Previous research has conveyed the advantages of having more women participate in leadership. Thus, this potential not only benefits girls and women but organizations and society at large.

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Girls’ and young women’s leader identity development: a scoping review

Dixon

Niewoehner-Green

Smulowitz

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“…Thus, women's leadership must work to undo the networks of hidden powers that operate in companies to perpetuate the subordination of women and other groups. Indeed, women's leadership pursues social change and takes a greater antiracist and antisexist approach (Batliwala 2010;Shea and Renn 2017). So, no matter what domain it appears in, political commitment is made to fight for social justice, unlike what we find with the women's leadership model in management literature.…”

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A Tendency to Essentialism? Discourses about Women’s Leadership

Medina-Vicent

2020

Social Sciences

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The main objective of this research is to identify the women’s leadership model diffused through management literature in order to determine if there is a pre-eminence of essentialist and exclusionary principles in its sense. Through the Appraisal Theory and by analyzing a recent management literature sample, the values associated with the women’s leadership model are identified, and a conclusion about their essentialist character is reached. The initial hypothesis is that the women’s leadership model, disseminated to professional women through management literature, contains an essentialist character that reproduces gender dichotomies and the rational homo oeconomicus model by hindering gender equality and the development of egalitarian leadership models from being accomplished.

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“…Any form of discrimination that relates to gender according to Shea (2017) poses a severe obstacle to women in politics. Shea pointed out that such barriers to women's ability, as an implicit facet of feminisation, to break the glass ceiling include assumptions about women and conflicting expectations of women [28]. Also, women are perceived to lack confidence and are not severe enough to expand their political terrain.…”

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Electoral Legitimacy and Gender Representation Barriers; Theories and Practices in Nigeria

Okegbola

2023

TIJAR

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The article describes relevant concepts and theories on Gender Representation and Electoral Legitimacy behaviours and barriers that obstruct global policies for gender equity model to a free and fair election. The limiting barriers and theories described, include Class-Conflict versus Representation Theory, Gender vs Culture, Electoral Legitimacy Deficit vs Dominance Theory, Machismo Culture, Institutional concept, Human Capital, Feminist Rights Concepts (FGF) and the UN Think, Assess, Consider, and Take Action (UNTACT) Concept. The article adopts a descriptive secondary qualitative method to gather data on the key theories, barriers and practices affecting gender representation electoral. Data collection include previous studies, articles, reports, publications, and Electoral Commission official documents already generated. These various sources of information gathered, was critically examined, reviewed, analysed, and synthesized to understand the context in which gender representation barriers exist. Research results indicted Nigeria Electoral process as extremely unreliable at the output-delivery process, and thus, criticised for having flaws and failing to completely enforce candidate electoral rules, which impacts female representation. However, the research contributed to a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding electoral theories, practices and their impact on electoral system’s legitimacy. Findings suggest, importance of challenging patriarchal electioneering structures, cultural norms, and power imbalances in the political sphere and the need for power dynamics to be examined critically, to deliver effective gender or female representation. Keywords: Electoral Legitimacy, Gender Representation, Theories, Barriers, Nigeria.

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Gender and Leadership: A Call to Action

Abstract: In the final chapter of this volume, the authors provide a call to action for changes in the way educators conceptualize gender, particularly within the context of leadership development and education.

Cited by 8 publications

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Girls’ and young women’s leader identity development: a scoping review

Girls’ and young women’s leader identity development: a scoping review

A Tendency to Essentialism? Discourses about Women’s Leadership

Electoral Legitimacy and Gender Representation Barriers; Theories and Practices in Nigeria

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