{"id":1557,"date":"2019-11-05T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2019-11-05T14:40:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:40:13","slug":"blog-post-11-women-in-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/11\/05\/blog-post-11-women-in-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 11: Women in Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading \u201cWhy Women Lead\u201d by Judy B. Rosener went hand-in-hand with the reading I recently completed for my Justice class: <\/span>Make Love, Not War<\/span><\/i> by David Allyn. While <\/span>Make Love, Not War<\/span><\/i> predominantly focuses on the sexual double standard, \u201cWhy Women Lead\u201d ties in the double standards against women in the workplace. Rosener states, \u201cmen and women received different signals about what was expected of them…women have been expected to be wives, mothers, community volunteers, teachers, and nurses,\u201d (157). The push of women into \u201cpink-collar\u201d jobs persists today and contributes to phenomena such as the wage gap, the wealth gap, and the feminization of poverty. Women were expected in the home to support their spouses (specifically, their husbands, due to the heteronormative view of the American family) and enter the \u201chelping\u201d fields such as the ones listed above.<\/span><\/p>\n

While I thought that Rosener did a good job outlining the results found in the <\/span>IWF Survey of Men and Women Leaders<\/span><\/i>, I think the article itself had limitations that must be acknowledged when studying women\u2019s leadership. While the author acknowledged that \u201clinking interactive leadership directly to being female is a mistake,\u201d she did not elaborate upon that conclusion. She also made points that oftentimes women were only given these leadership positions due to a company\u2019s own turmoil or need for employees. Again, the author does not elaborate upon <\/span>why<\/span><\/i> this is problematic, and that women are only entering certain fields at the expense of a company\u2019s organizational failure, rather than their own skills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, I found the conclusion from the survey results that \u201cboth men and women leaders pay their female subordinates roughly $12,000 less than their male subordinates with similar positions and roles\u201d was extremely problematic. Statistics such as this one show the impact that class has on one\u2019s acquisition of power and wealth; women are very well pervading sexism against their poor counterparts just as men are. We must take into account all facets of one\u2019s identity to recognize that while women have been discriminated against since the beginning, factors such as race and class come into play as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anna Marston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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