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Background on Women & Leadership In the U.S.

Background on Women & Leadership In the U.S. St. Catherine University Global Women’s Leadership Convening: Women in Public Life July 13-20, 2011. Women Rapidly Entered Leadership. However, the numbers drop significantly at the highest levels of leadership:.

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Background on Women & Leadership In the U.S.

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  1. Background on Women & LeadershipIn the U.S.

    St. Catherine University Global Women’s Leadership Convening: Women in Public Life July 13-20, 2011
  2. Women Rapidly Entered Leadership
  3. However, the numbers drop significantly at the highest levels of leadership: Only 15.7% of corporate officers are women in the U.S. Only 8 women CEOs in the Fortune 500 Tracking women in top leadership only began in 1995

  4. An inadequate number of women in the “pipeline” is no longer seen as the cause of these low numbers.

    If not this, what is the cause?
  5. What about women’s leadership style? In a study comparing men and women’s leadership style, women score higher in transformational leadership Which produces the most positive leadership outcomes And results in advancement for men, Yet, it is less likely to result in career advancement for women
  6. Women leaders cite: They have to outperform men to get the same rewards They do not receive comparable salaries They do not perceive that, all things being equal, a women will be promoted over a man They cite barriers to advancement that include exclusion from formal networks, stereotyping and lack of accountability by leaders to promote women Only 30% believe they have the same opportunities as men 41% of current pay gap between men and women is “unexplainable”
  7. What else is contributing? Women’s continued primary responsibility for household and child rearing place added burdens that contribute to stress and burn-out. Women feel isolated in their work as leaders. Many women leaders do not identify themselves as leaders regardless of their many accomplishments. Women have few opportunities to collectively explore assumptions about leadership and gender.
  8. The “Double Bind” for women leaders Women are caught in gender defined images of leadership: They become “one of the boys” and risk violating gender expectations for women. They use transformational leadership approaches consistent with gender norms for women and do not get seen as leaders. They think their lack of recognition is due to their own performance; they work to outperform everyone else, and many experience burn-out as a result.

  9. How Three Waves of Feminism Have Impacted Women’s Leadership

  10. Three Waves of Feminism Women’s Suffrage Women’s Voice Women’s Differentiation

  11. All three waves continue to impact women in leadership simultaneously

    And there is an emerging fourth wave…
  12. Fourth Wave Women ‘s Interconnectedness Women (and men) recognize ourselves as multi-dimensional, support our individual differences, our equality, and our Interdependence, while focusing our efforts, together, on the wider global issues we face.
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