Rethinking Women’s Leadership Development: Voices from the Trenches

Robin Selzer, Amy Howton and Felicia Wallace
Additional contact information
Robin Selzer: Experience-Based Learning & Career Education, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
Amy Howton: Design Impact, Cincinnati, OH 45202, USA
Felicia Wallace: Academic Excellence and Support Services, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA

Administrative Sciences, 2017, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-20

Abstract: As recent graduates of a women’s-only leadership development program in higher education in the United States, we used autoethnography as a research methodology to provide critical insight into effective women’s leadership programming and evaluation. The potential of this methodology as both a learning process and product helped elucidate two key findings: (1) to effectively develop women leaders, work must be done at the personal, interpersonal, and organizational levels, as these levels are interrelated and interdependent; and (2) women’s multiple identities must be engaged. Therefore, relationship-building should be a central learning outcome and facilitated through program curricula, pedagogical methods, and evaluation. Including autoethnography as a program evaluation methodology fills a gap in the literature on leadership development, and supports our goal of making meaning of our personal experiences in order to enhance women’s leadership development.

Keywords: women’s leadership; leadership program evaluation; gender equity; intersectionality; identity; higher education; career advancement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/7/2/18/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/7/2/18/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jadmsc:v:7:y:2017:i:2:p:18-:d:100050

Access Statistics for this article

Administrative Sciences is currently edited by Ms. Nancy Ma

More articles in Administrative Sciences from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().