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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS AND CULTURE Rector Gunta Veismane

This article examines the gender perspective in leadership, exploring different leadership styles and the barriers that prevent equal opportunities.

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS AND CULTURE Rector Gunta Veismane

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  1. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS AND CULTURE Rector Gunta Veismane

  2. 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

  3. Introduction • Themostsignificanttransformationofthe 20th centuryisthechange in thepositionofwomen • Theaimsofthistranformation, arenotforthesupremacyofwomenovermen, but , forequityandequality in status, opportunitiesandpowerrelationsbetweenthegenders. • Thetaskis to respectdifferences, whicharemainlytheresultoflearning process and, therefore, subject to change • Leadershipis, likemanyotherrelatedconceptsandprocesses, presumed to be GENDER NEUTRAL

  4. Thegenderperspective • Thegenderperspectivemustbeatthecenteron a newethicalapproach to leadership • Genderis a conceptualandanalyticalcategorywhichexplainsthedifferencesbetweenwomenandmen • Psyhological, social, culturaldifferencesnotbiologicalnorgenetic in theirorigin;northeyimply a “naturalinequality”

  5. Leadership: genderrelatednotgenderspecific • Warren Bennis:“Leaders 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 Kremenchutzky:the leader is the one who has faith in others, the one who bets and takes risks with them ...

  6. Characteristics • Feminine: excitable, gentle, emotional, submissive, sentimental, understanding,compasionate, sensitive, dependent • Masculine: dominant, aggressive,tough,assertive, autocraticanalitycal, competitive, independent, actionoriented • Neutral: adaptive, tactful, sincere, conscientious, conventional,reliable, predictable, systematic, efficient. • Arewe in agreementaboutwhichcharacteristicscanbedefinetelyassigned to eithermalesorfemales? 

  7. Stylesofmenandwomenleadership • JudithRosener`sresearhrevealed, thatmenusuallydescribethemselves in waysthatcharacterize “transactionalleaders”. • Rosenersaysthatwomentend to describethemselves in waysthatcharacterize “transformationalleaders.” • Newstyleofleadership – typeofinclusiveleadershipvsauthoritarianformsofleadership.

  8. Barriers to equalopportunities in leadership • Structuralbarriersincludelegal , educational, cultural, social, andhistoricalfactors. • Major psychologicalfactorsinfluencing EQUAL acceptanceofwomenandmenasleadersincludeculturalandsocietalattitudestowardwoman, butalso, thesocializedperceptionsofwomenandwomen`sownself-perceptions.

  9. THANKS FOR ATTENTION! Gunta.Veismane@eka.edu.com

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