UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS AND CULTURE

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• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS AND CULTURE
• Rector Gunta Veismane

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Gender and Leadership

• Introduction
• The Gender perspective
• Gender related not gender specific
• Characteristics
• Styles of men and women leadership
• Barriers to equal opportunities in leadership

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Introduction

• The most significant transformation of the 20th
  century is the change in the position of women
• The aims of this tranformation, are not for the
  supremacy of women over men, but , for equity and
  equality in status, opportunities and power
  relations between the genders.
• The task is to respect differences, which are
  mainly the result of learning process and,
  therefore, subject to change
• Leadership is, like many other related concepts
  and processes, presumed to be GENDER NEUTRAL

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The gender perspective

• The gender perspective must be at the center on
  a new ethical approach to leadership
• Gender is a conceptual and analytical category
  which explains the differences between women and
  men
• Psyhological, social, cultural differences not
  biological nor genetic in their originnor they
  imply a natural inequality

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Leadership gender related not gender specific

• Warren BennisLeaders must be competent,.there
  must also be congruity between they say and do
• Rojas Castaneda says as one prepares oneself to
  exercise leadership, one prepares to give space
  to others.
• Eunice Njovana says that a leader is a person who
  has ability to provoke, and encourage fellow
  human beings the best they can according to their
  different abilities
• Peter Senge suggests that leaders are no longer
  men on horseback, who shape up organizations
  though the force of their personalities
• Graciela Kremenchutzkythe leader is the one who
  has faith in others, the one who bets and takes
  risks with them ...

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Characteristics

• Feminine excitable, gentle, emotional,
  submissive, sentimental, understanding,compasionat
  e, sensitive, dependent
• Masculine dominant, aggressive,tough,assertive,
  autocratic analitycal, competitive, independent,
  action oriented
• Neutral adaptive, tactful, sincere,
  conscientious, conventional,reliable,
  predictable, systematic, efficient.
• Are we in agreement about which characteristics
  can be definetely assigned to either males or
  females? ???

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Styles of men and women leadership

• Judith Roseners researh revealed, that men
  usually describe themselves in ways that
  characterize transactional leaders.
• Rosener says that women tend to describe
  themselves in ways that characterize
  transformational leaders.
• New style of leadership type of inclusive
  leadership vs authoritarian forms of leadership.

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Barriers to equal opportunities in leadership

• Structural barriers include legal , educational,
  cultural, social, and historical factors.
• Major psychological factors influencing EQUAL
  acceptance of women and men as leaders include
  cultural and societal attitudes toward woman, but
  also, the socialized perceptions of women and
  womens own self-perceptions.

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• THANKS FOR ATTENTION!
• Gunta.Veismane_at_eka.edu.com