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Is it Really Helping? A Review of Women\u27s "Self-Help" Literature
Get PDFIn this article, we review recent popular literature about women in leadership at work. We focus on popular literature because of its extensive and diverse audience, and approach it as an indication of the status of women in the workplace: what is faced and how it is handled. In our review of the most frequently purchased books about women and leadership, we argue that these works\u27 general message is as follows: women face difficulty getting ahead in their careers, women require advice about how to be successful leaders in their workplaces, and that advice instructs women that if they aspire to get ahead or even just stay afloat in systems that, for the most part, are still dominated by men and built on hegemonic values, then women employees must change aspects of themselves. We argue that this focus on individual women changing their behavior and appearance in the workplace fails to challenge systems issues that contribute to women\u27s experiences as leaders in work. We conclude by inviting scholars to shift these conversations from how women should change to how everyone, including women, should work together to change workplace norms.
Leadership Self-Efficacy: A Study of Male and Female MBA Students in Mexico
Get PDFA disproportionate share of men holds leadership positions in Mexico. Relatively new studies on gender and leadership self- efficacy conducted under transformational leadership models have started to challenge the idea that gender moderates leader effectiveness. This study was developed to analyze differences in leadership self-efficacy between 80 female and 73 male MBA students in the city of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The results contributed to the growing number of studies on leadership self-efficacy conducted under transformational leadership models that support the claim that gender does not moderate leader effectiveness.
Leadership Style and Career Success of Women Leaders in Nonprofit Organizations
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between the leadership styles and the career success of women in nonprofit organizations. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire served as the instrument to identify transformation, transactional, and passive leadership styles. The development of a career success index through summing the coded values of data regarding job satisfaction, work-life balance, tenure in the nonprofit industry, tenure in current position, and compensation level facilitated correlational analysis with leadership style. The Gulf Coast region of the United States was the geographic region for the study. The results indicated a significant and positive correlation between the transformational and transactional leadership styles and the career success index, p = 0.024 for Pearson\u27s Product Moment; p = 0.038 for Spearman\u27s rho, and p = 0.012 for Pearson\u27s Product Moment; p = 0.022 for Spearman\u27s rho, respectively. No significant relationship existed between passive leadership style and the career success index, with p = 0.81 for Pearson\u27s Product Moment and p = 0.983 for Spearman\u27s rho. Keywords: Women in leadership, leadership style, career success of women, nonprofit leadershi
The Influence of Online Social Capital On Women\u27s Career Change
Get PDFWomen seeking to manage their careers have faced numerous challenges for decades. The influence of social capital on women\u27s careers has been a concern of researchers, particularly within the contexts of women\u27s underrepresentation in businesses\u27 higher organizational ranks and societal expectations for women. This research builds on previous career studies and improves the understanding of women\u27s career changes with consideration of their social capital behaviors online. The two research questions in the study are: To what degree does online social capital impact women\u27s ability to make desired career changes in business? To what degree do workingwomen view online social networking platforms as a viable means to develop and maintain social capital? In phase one, a quantitative study was conducted via an online survey of over two hundred women working within nearly fifty companies in a southwestern New York and northwestern Pennsylvania region. In phase two, follow-up qualitative questions were asked of an age-stratified sample of women working in the region. The findings suggest that women\u27s use of direct communications channels online is associated with developing and maintaining professional network contacts. Women in the study indicated a limited use and perception of social media tools for developing social capital. Factors including age and field of work were found to impact women\u27s use of social media professionally as well. Future implications suggest investigating the activities women use to develop and maintain their career-related social capital networks over time to identify potential shifts in behavior or social media acceptance. Keywords: career change; social capital; online networking, social media, women in business; women\u27s careers.
Women as School Executives: Voices and Visions: Book Review
No full textThe publication of the Texas Council of Women School Executives (TCWSE), Women as School Executives: Voices and Visions, edited by Beverly J. Irby and Genevieve Brown, explores the paradigm shift of women in executive roles in school administration. The editors have pointed to the changing landscape of leadership and found that inclusiveness is necessary in the educational work place and will enrich the fabric of the education of young people in America
Faculty Tiering and Academic Inbreeding: One Institution\u27s Relationships and Realities
Get PDF"Like inbreeding, if the proliferation of faculty tiering is problematic for academe, this institution is promoting faculty tiering, but at a lower rate than national trends. But, inbreeding and faculty tiering appear to be related, with more inbred faculty in lower tiered positions.
Teaching Leadership to Female Students in Saudi Arabia
Get PDFEducation in Saudi Arabia has become a great interest to many of its people. Additionally, women\u27s education and leadership have become a dynamic interest to many. This research gives light to how females perceive and their understanding of leadership at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU). The central focus of this research project was to evaluate the impact of a leadership course on improving leadership outcomes for female students studying at PMU in Saudi Arabia. In order to achieve this goal, a pre-test/post-test quantitative design was employed. The sample for this investigation was drawn from undergraduate female students enrolled in a leadership course at PMU taught by the researcher
Glass Ceilings and Catfights: Career Barriers for Professional Women in Academia
Get PDFWomen continue to struggle to reach parity in the workplace, constantly hitting their heads on the glass ceiling. The inability to break through this barrier may lead women to develop covert actions to create an advantage over their competition. The existing literature on the relationships of women and men in the workplace provides some insight to the struggles that occur when one gender could be considered a professional minority. In addition, some researchers have studied the working relationships of women in the business environment, but there is a deficiency in the literature of the working relationships among women in academic organizations. The purpose of our study was to explore the challenges of female relationships in the community college workplace, as women continue to dominate these institutions as both employees and students.A psychodynamic perspective was used as the theoretical framework for the study. We sought to assess the perceptions of female professional staff in public community colleges of how women supported the career advancement of their female peers, as well as how their supervisors and departments supported the professional development of potential female leaders. The results of the mixed method study identified two areas of limitations for women within community college environments: interpersonal and institutional cultural. The results of the quantitative analysis identified that a majority of females felt their peers were supportive of the career advancement of their female colleagues. The qualitative results of the study painted a different picture, indicating that women may use covert actions to compete with and hold back their female colleagues
Befriending (White) Women Faculty in Higher Education?
No full textIn this essay Thayer-Bacon explores the issue of a chilly climate in higher education that is generated by some women, in particular White women, and the destructive behavior they bring to higher education that damages their programs, as well as their working relationships with colleagues and students. The author seeks to find ways to befriend women in higher education, her sisters of color as well as her White sisters. Thayer-Bacon\u27s focus here is on White women. Her approach is to use stories from the field to illustrate problems that are analyzed, using a narrative style of philosophical argumen
Gender Identity and the Role of an Adult Educator in a Vocational Training Institute
Get PDFThis study examined the degree of sensitization of an adult educator in a Vocational Training Institute with regard to the link between his (her) gender identity and his (her) pedagogic role. In effect, the degree of sensitization connotes the extent to which an educator experiences the sexism. Thirty eight adult educators (19 male and 19 female) have been interviewed for the purpose of the inquiry. The results showed that the female adult educators experienced and perceived higher the above link than the male educators. The origin of this differentiation has been largely based on the social construction of the gender identity and the segmentation of the labour market, and internalized in values and beliefs about appropriate masculine/feminine roles and expectations