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Leadership - a matter of gender?

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Author

Editor

  • Savita Kumra
  • Ruth Simpson
  • Ronald J. Burke

Summary, in English

The long-lasting and possibly not very useful question of whether women’s and men’s leadership are similar or differ has not led to conclusive answers. This chapter discusses different stances of the no-difference and the gender-stereotypcal views and the problems in investigating the subject—including complications in how to determine and motivate whether there is a difference in women’s and men’s ways of leading. We argue that it is not necessarily very fruitful to seek general patterns in terms of gender and leadership and argue that understanding gender and leadership calls less for a strict adherence to a specific theory and law-like patterns than an ability to consider a variety of key aspects and dynamics and a variation of tendencies and empirical outcomes.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Publication/Series

Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organization

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • gender
  • leadership
  • de-masculinization
  • competition
  • ideology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9780199658213