Women Learning Leadership

Valerie Stead and Carole Elliott

Chapter 6 in Women’s Leadership, 2009, pp 134-161 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This quote from May Blood, of her time working in a linen mill and as a union representative, exemplifies the focus of this chapter; how women learn leadership. In particular it indicates the significance of learning as being informal and emerging from the doing of leadership and we explore this in more detail later. The quote also points to the significance of gender, how she was often the only woman, and how women were not asking for enough. Through women leaders’ accounts Chapter 4’s analysis illustrated how gender is reproduced through social interaction and through organisational processes. This analysis demonstrated that women have to negotiate gendered processes in order to achieve and maintain leadership roles. Furthermore, it foregrounded that women leaders had limited learning opportunities from social networks to help them do this.

Keywords: Power Relation; Critical Reflection; Leadership Development; Leadership Practice; Situate Practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230246737_7

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