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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS AND CULTURE Rector Gunta Veismane. 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. Introduction.
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS AND CULTURE Rector Gunta Veismane
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
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
Thegenderperspective • Thegenderperspectivemustbeatthecenteron a newethicalapproach to leadership • Genderis a conceptualandanalyticalcategorywhichexplainsthedifferencesbetweenwomenandmen • Psyhological, social, culturaldifferencesnotbiologicalnorgenetic in theirorigin;northeyimply a “naturalinequality”
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 ...
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?
Stylesofmenandwomenleadership • JudithRosener`sresearhrevealed, thatmenusuallydescribethemselves in waysthatcharacterize “transactionalleaders”. • Rosenersaysthatwomentend to describethemselves in waysthatcharacterize “transformationalleaders.” • Newstyleofleadership – typeofinclusiveleadershipvsauthoritarianformsofleadership.
Barriers to equalopportunities in leadership • Structuralbarriersincludelegal , educational, cultural, social, andhistoricalfactors. • Major psychologicalfactorsinfluencing EQUAL acceptanceofwomenandmenasleadersincludeculturalandsocietalattitudestowardwoman, butalso, thesocializedperceptionsofwomenandwomen`sownself-perceptions.
THANKS FOR ATTENTION! Gunta.Veismane@eka.edu.com