Female Leadership: A Case of Neuropsychological Research in Colombia

Diana Carolina Cárdenas-Poveda (), Nolly Castañeda-Ibañez () and Alejandra Rizo-Arévalo ()
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Diana Carolina Cárdenas-Poveda: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios
Nolly Castañeda-Ibañez: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios
Alejandra Rizo-Arévalo: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

A chapter in Sustainable Leadership for Entrepreneurs and Academics, 2019, pp 113-119 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Leadership in woman or female leadership is currently gaining some focus and interest in research. In the field of neuropsychology, the number of women has been increasing over the past three decades, but one has to observe that women are still the minority at leading positions within most neuropsychological organizations, leading journals’ editorial boards, and prominent academic positions. Research on this topic has shown a series of strategic elements that allow achieving leadership positions for woman in neuropsychology including features like knowing their own leadership personal style, being open and transparent, being responsible for their own mistakes, using a collaborative approach, delegating tasks when it is necessary, looking for visibility and connections, keeping focused, having confidence, and gathering information. This paper presents an example of leadership in a work team of women researchers in the field of neuropsychology of mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) in Colombia. MPS is a rare type of genetic disorder that affects a small number of people. Our paper demonstrates how the distribution of duties according to the personal styles, collaboration with other colleagues, delegating tasks, and looking for visibility and connections might allow to form a work team with diverse characteristics for advancing in the research on the neuropsychological aspects of the MPS, a pioneering field in Colombia. Moreover, we contribute to the understanding of the disease by the patients’ families and help creating the possibility of carrying out future research related to combating this disease in Colombia as well as worldwide.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15495-0_12

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