Women's Leadership [electronic resource] /
Stead, V.author.
Elliott, C.author.
Women's Leadership  challenges traditional concepts of leadership that draw on the male experience and offers an alternative construction that emerges from the female experience. Highlighting leadership's social, cultural and political roots, the authors argue that leadership is neither a free floating nor a gender neutral concept.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. Understandings of women's leadership -- 1. Common understandings : leadership and leadership development -- 2. Visualising women's leadership : stereotypes and metaphors -- Pt. II. Gender, women and leadership -- 3. Women's experiences of becoming leaders -- 4. Gender matters -- Pt. III. Progressing women's leadership -- 5. Women's leadership identity -- 6. Women learning leadership -- 7. Reflections and conclusions.
Women's Leadership  challenges traditional concepts of leadership that draw on the male experience and offers an alternative construction that emerges from the female experience. Highlighting leadership's social, cultural and political roots, the authors argue that leadership is neither a free floating nor a gender neutral concept.
Management.
Leadership.
Organization.
Planning.
Economic sociology.
Sociology.
Behavioral economics.
Management.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Organization.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Gender Studies.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.