Releasing Leadership Potential of Women Students

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Releasing Leadership Potential of Women Students

• A training model

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The Context

• Women students constitute over 35 enrolment in
  higher education
• Percentage of women in leadership role very low

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The Issues

• Why are there so few women in leadership
  positions?
• Why do we need more women in leadership
  positions?
• How do we bring more women to leadership
  positions?

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Why are there so few women in leadership
positions?
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Why do we need more women in leadership positions?

• Fully utilise 50 of human resources
• Women equally gifted, talented, competent to
  provide leadership
• Collaborative, co-operative style of women more
  conducive to leadership
• Need women as role models
• To bring womens issues and problems to focus

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How do we bring more women to leadership
positions?

• Capacity building for
• Overcoming psychological glass ceiling
• Personal inadequacies
• Equip women handle and face challenges of
• Gender stereotype
• Inequality
• Discrimination
• Create women friendly
• Policies
• Structures

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Leadership matrix
Leadership skill
Concern for women
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What are the special needs of women students?
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Objectives of Training
The 4 Cs
Develop Competence for implementing the initiative
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Some Good Practices Personal Development

• Develop leadership skills
• Conduct confidence-building exercises
• Provide training in assertiveness
• Develop communication skills
• Hold exercises for clarification of values
• Help women face fears and doubts
• Encourage students to set high targets
• Develop plans for achieving them

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Some Good Practices Gender Issues

• Introduce women related themes and topics for
  discussion and debate
• Make the students read and write on womens
  issues
• Conduct various gender sensitization programs
• Develop awareness of stereotyping of sexual roles
  and ways of responding to it
• Sensitize women to be alert to bias in media
• Interview women who have been discriminated
  against
• Interview women who have been successful

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Some Good Practices Social Concerns

• Get students involved in community outreach
  programs
• Provide opportunities for participation in group
  exercises
• Inculcate a sense of unity to fight for the
  common cause

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Steps Involved
Plan for future
Review, share experiences
Conduct training of trainer programmes
Allocate infrastructure
Allocate time
Procure funds
Identify change agents (Teachers, NGOs, ASC, WSC)
Develop training manual
Gender sensitization of educational
administrators (VCs, Principals)