Women Leadership: A Management Perspective

The book Women Leadership : A Management Perspective contains important articles relating to a vital issue like leadership and gender. Although there is no role of gender as far as the leadership is concerned yet there lies a social perception that male centered leadership is more accepted. In all most every field women of the country have taken lead. In spite of these facts social acceptance of women leadership is yet to be established. If some one looks into the present trend, he will find in every field i.e. in politics, entrepreneurship, management, military, medical, engineering women have shown equal potentialities. Gender based leadership is only a socially created phenomenon. Since there have been more male leaders than female leaders it can not be concluded that women lack leadership qualities. There could have been many other factors that prevented them from exercising those leadership qualities. Successful women leaders are considered leaders because of the presence of these qualities rather than gender. In fact leadership has been conceived in a very narrow term. Even though women are disadvantaged in many aspects in the country, they still show that they are quite able to perform the task of the leaders. Women can be offered responsibilities in different capacities. This book will be helpful to the students and faculties of management. It will also be helpful to the students of psychology, sociology, mass communication, social work and women studies. The book will be immensely useful to the academicians and researchers working in the area of gender based leadership.