Blog 30

Women are very disadvantaged when it comes to leadership.Conventional views about leadership styles disadvantage women by still keeping the traditional stereotypes labeled to them. Women are often characterized as nurturing beings, motherly, and emotional. These women are held back because the expectations of their stereotypes. Men, on the other hand, stereotypically have a more aggressive style, more bossing around employees, and tend to be less emotional. When women try to be authoritative it likely is not well accepted because of the expected nurturing, motherly stereotype women have.
When there are more women represented in higher positions in a company, usually a company has a better/higher profit margin, than companies with lower rates of women in higher positions. Also there tends to be a higher rate of performance with more women in the ranks of a company. Women tend to have more creative management styles, using different techniques, and also having a better listening ability. So when a women is in a leadership position, they usually embody certain or select stereotypes, and combine different techniques for a better, more effective leadership style. Male leadership is idea for more male employees. The are aggressive and less nurturing, making it easy to communicate with other men. Women try to lead in a more gentler manner, maybe even nicer. If men and women combined techniques, they could be able to get things done quicker, more efficiently, with emotionally happier employees.
Overall, shared leadership is most effective in businesses. Shared leadership is where there are more women in higher ranks in larger companies. With women in the ranks, there is reported higher profits, and higher performance. Women can be found to have more creative leadership techniques, which in-turns makes employees more willing to work and more effective. It also gives women more job place opportunities. In the movie, the women said that if there were 30% of women in ranking positions, there would be more of a likelihood of your business to succeeded.
I though it was funny when the videos addressed the disparity of women in ranking positions. There are 16% women holding leadership positions in government, and one digit percents of women holding leadership positions in fortune 500 companies. There are also more women who prepare themselves for leadership positions, with every year, more women graduating from universities. Wouldn't the facts be taken into consideration, especially when hiring women for more prestigious, ranked positions within companies.