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  • 21 - Women’s Leadership across Cultures

  • from Section 4 - Work and Family Issues
  • Edited by Fanny M. Cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Diane F. Halpern, Claremont McKenna College, California
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women
    Published online:
    20 July 2020
    Print publication:
    06 August 2020, pp 300-316

  • Summary

    Gender equity in the workplace is not merely a moral imperative; it also affects the success of businesses and our ability to solve the world’s grand challenges. The gender gap in leadership is a global phenomenon rooted in cultural role expectations of men, women, and leaders. Although these expectations vary across cultures, women consistently face barriers from laws, socialization, formal organizational policies, and informal organizational practices that limit their opportunities to become leaders and inhibit their ability to be effective when they do obtain such positions. To address these barriers, we discuss how societies, organizations, and individual women and men around the world can facilitate women’s leadership through culturally-contextual leadership development strategies. We frame our discussion around the intersection of culture, gender, and leadership to understand how the interaction of these variables informs local considerations as to what barriers, and therefore interventions, are most relevant in their respective contexts