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Empowering Women in Community Leadership

Join Wendy Davies from OSDC to learn qualities of great leaders and overcome barriers hindering women in leadership roles. Explore solutions like education, storytelling, role models, male allies, mentors, and coaching.

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Empowering Women in Community Leadership

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  1. Supporting Women in Community Leadership Welcome Wendy Davies OSDC

  2. Some of the qualities of good/ great leaders • Good listener • Able to celebrate success, compliment, stay positive • Integrity – a value base that is shown, explicit • Empathy – as a communication style, ability to relate • Open and transparent • Self aware – and able to delegate well, awareness of others’ skills • Patience (extreme!) • Well organised • Respectful of privacy, confidentiality where relevant • Able to make time for the role • Willing to invest in their own continuous development

  3. Barriers for Women in Community Leadership Roles • Self confidence • Family responsibilities • Men and women: stereotypical mindsets and cultures. Ideas about where we think power resides (maleness, older people) • Female leaders ‘pulling up the ladder’ • Negative views of assertive women compared to men (‘bossy’) • The need to work much harder to prove your leadership ability • Stereotype of ‘over emotional’ woman (i.e. menopause) • Women being too amenable and adaptable - as a copying strategy in structure that privileges men.

  4. Good examples What else can we do? • Educate girls and boys • Telling more Big Local stories about individual women’s journeys; making visible • Supporting good role models; network • Include men as allies • Mentoring, coaches

  5. Good examples What else can we do?

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