Looking Ahead: The Feminization of Leadership

Neha Chatwani

Chapter 12 in Unveiling Women’s Leadership, 2015, pp 137-152 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In India women are proving to be a valuable talent pool, fuelling a rapidly growing emerging economy. However, many women continue to report persistent and pertinent structural barriers hindering their professional advancement. The Indian woman embraces all her social gender roles equally — daughter, daughter-in-law, wife and mother. This embodies an important factor in her struggle for leadership, but also offers an important leverage for the feminization of leadership. Due to the specifics of the Indian cultural context, women in India command an important leverage for change — her family and children. With the support of policy-makers, corporates, non-profit organizations and universities, a multi-level agenda could increase the awareness of the challenges in closing the gender gap and facilitate the feminization of leadership towards a gender-free paradigm.

Keywords: Gender Role; Gender Identity; Structural Barrier; Indian Woman; Woman Manager (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137547064_12

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