New book examines women's experiences of becoming leaders
Published 16 December 2009
Women's Leadership, a new book by Valerie Stead and Carole Elliott of Lancaster's Department of Management Learning and Leadership, takes a fresh and engaging approach to leadership and leadership development by examining accounts of women's experiences of becoming leaders.
Within the context of a persistent lack of equality in the workplace and a dearth of critical academic examinations of women's leadership, the authors present an in-depth analysis of women leaders' accounts. Providing an overview of current debates, they examine the extent to which traditional understandings of leadership exclude women's experiences.
Using vivid examples from their research, Valerie Stead and Carole Elliott show that gender matters. Women's leadership is influenced by a series of relationships that result in women leaders being perceived and treated differently to men. This leads to women finding alternative ways of learning leadership to enable them to deal with barriers at work. The book concludes with a sample women's leadership development workshop.
This book will appeal to researchers and students who are looking for a critical and up-to-date analysis of women's leadership and is also designed to be helpful for leadership development practitioners who are seeking ways to work with and develop women leaders at different stages of their career.
Women's Leadership, by Valerie Stead and Carole Elliott, was published by Palgrave Macmillan on 27 November 2009.
