Women and Leadership

Helen Oumer

March 21, 2012

Authors of Article

• Professor of Business Administration - Harvard Business School• Investigation – effectively management of race and gender relations• Research – organizational change, group dynamics, conflict, power, and social

identity. • Teaching – Harvard's Executive Education programs, the IWF Leadership

Foundation Fellow Program, and the Women's Leadership Forum.• Publications – numerous articles in books and journals • Consultant • Recent work –

Men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms The effects of racial diversity on performance in retail banking Senior women's experiences of power and authority in professional service firms

• Ph.D. – Organizational Behavior from Yale University• Doctoral coursework – Social Psychology: University of Texas at Austin• Bachelors degree – Smith College• Member of the Academy of Management and an Associate Editor

of Administrative Science

Dr. Robin J. Ely

Authors of Article

• Director – Stanford Center on the Legal Profession• Founding President – International Association of Legal Ethics• Focus - Legal Ethics and Gender, Law, and Public Policy• Publications - Over 20 books: The Beauty Bias, Women and Leadership, & Moral

Leadership; columnist for The National Law Journal; and published editorials in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Slate Newspapers.

• Former president of the Association of American Law Schools, Former Chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession, Founder and Former Director of Stanford’s Center on Ethics, and Former Director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford

• Awards - American Bar Association’s Michael Franck award, the American Bar Foundation’s W. M. Keck Foundation Award, the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award, and the White House’s Champion of Change award

• BA, Yale University, 1974• JD, Yale Law School, 1977

Dr. Deborah L. Rhode

The Iron Ladies Breaking into the Male-Supremacy Cage

• 33% MBA vs. 2 % Fortune 500 CEO• 40% Law School vs. < 20% Higher Positions• > 50% Voters vs. 16% Congressional Seats• http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/Current-Women-Leader

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Leadership Myth & Women

Authori-tative

Assertive

Dominant

Cultural prejudice She Can’t – wo/men co-workers You Can’t – males in charge

• 39% White & 44% colored vs. 2% WM passed over

I Can’t – Cultural/Societal/Religious Directly

• She is a B ch Indirectly

• Lack of Flexibility/Accommodation• Benevolent Sexism• Hostile Sexism

Structural Barriers

Access to Information Professional

Networking Mentoring The “Boys Clubs” The Glass Ceiling

She Has To Choose Time and Space Office in Laptop/Smart-phone

• Voluntary Professional Sacrifice 4 in 10 women 1 in 10 men

Attitudinal Barriers Assertive vs. Abrasive Charismatic vs. Seductive Self-Confident vs. Pushy Firm vs. Stubborn Aggressive vs. Shrew Leadership Qualities:

Cooperation, Collaboration, & Interpersonal Skills• “Damned If YOU Do, Doomed If You Don’t”

Other Issues Challenges of Nature

• Identity Performance vs. Learning

Goals• Demonstrate vs. Develop

She prefers to learn Prevention vs. Promotion

Strgy.• She is prevention

Motivation• Egosystem vs. ecosystem

Me vs. We

The Total Cost Individual Problems

• Frustration• Withdrawal

Economic Problems• Waste of Human Resource• Loss of Investment on Education

Organizational Problems• Direct and Indirect Effects on Performance• Loss of Opportunity of Great Leaders

Social Problems• Defeat of Equal Opportunity• Discrimination and Injustice

Thank You!