Women employee empowerment towards leadership in modern business





Is Leadership gender matter?

The success of any organization is based on finding the extraordinary talent within the organization and developing the future leaders. Leadership capabilities have been identified for effective leaders, albeit largely confused with performance that leads to stereotypes of gender in favor of men. Based on a theory of social role, women are often racially understood and sought to create gender inequalities in leadership positions, while male representatives are seen as more capable leaders, and give priority to men. (THIRD WAY, 2015)

The modern social environment has been changing rapidly, including gender social responsibilities. The contribution of women to society’s smooth transition from preliterate to literate, from caretakers to the competitive business world. (Beatrice, 2021). Nowadays it is a visible equal gender composition in a leadership team in any organization. A few decades back, the sound of women’s human rights and equal education opportunities helped women to come front of the business battle and accept gender quality by most of the government that making the women sustain themselves in the modern business world. As a result of the continuously changing attitudes toward women’s leadership, in 2021 the proportion of women in senior management has increased by 31%.

The proportion of women in senior leadership differs by region:


Table 1.1

  (Thornton,2021)

Challengers of women empower to leadership  

Despite the unique challenges that women leaders face, women continue to serve their mission and move forward through obstacles when they reach their full potential. But as the representation of women in high positions in public, administrative and business leadership declines, we all lose it.

There are a few challenges women in leadership face in the workplace as follows.

  1.          Education
  2.          The inability of Work-life balancing
  3.          Being not treated equally
  4.          Advocating on their behalf
  5.          Trusting their own business
  6.          Impostor syndrome

 

Women continuously encounter Challengers when it comes to advancing in the workplace. At present women challenge the statuesque male dominants. The modern business world has a vacuum of the persons who can influence the business follows to the desired company goals, never matter with gender. The vacuum can be filled by either man or a woman who has preferred leadership qualities. Now it’s a trend that women are leading more than men in the top position of a successful organization. (GLOBAL,2022)

 Some characteristics can be seen in an empowered women leader.

1. They develop their leadership styles

2. They know how to communicate

3. Influential

4. committed to innovation

5. Promote female empowerment

 

How do empower women employees?


Fig 1.2

( Bustamante, K.2021)

 

Fig 1.2 describes the many ways to empower women. A new era is moving to a world that does not allow gender diversity anymore. Talented, skilled, and committed women are walking to the right opportunities as men. The organization should be ready by neglecting gender diversity to absorb the right person for the right opportunities. Then the organizational environment should support to empower women for a better future.

 

Example of empowered women leaders 


Example of  Empowering Women Leaders to Follow in 2022

1. Alya J. Franklin

Company: Aleida Consulting

Designation: Partner and Co-Founder

 

2. Amy Hedrick

Company: Cleanbox Technology Inc.

Designation: Co-Founder and CEO

 

3. 4. Angie Vaux

Company: Women in Tech forum

Designation: Founder

(Analytics Insight,2021)

 

 

Reference

1.       THIRD WAY. (2017) Empowering Equality: 5 Challenges Faced by Women Entrepreneurs. Available at: https://www.thirdway.org/report/empowering-equality-5-challenges-faced-by-women-entrepreneurs

(Accessed: 198 April 2022)

2. Beatrice, B.(1984) Woman's Role in Social Change. Available at: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/womans-role-social-change

(Accessed: 16 April 2022)

3.  Nancy, N.(2021) A Leap Of Faith: Eight Tips For Women Transitioning From The Corporate World To The Entrepreneurship Realm. Available at: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/364135

(Accessed: 17 April 2022)

4. GLOBAL,(2022) Women in Management. Available at: https://www.catalyst.org/research/women-in-management/

(Accessed: 15 April 2022)

5.  Bustamante, K.(2021) 10 Ways to Empower Women in the Workplace. Available at: https://community.themomproject.com/the-study/empowering-women-in-the-workplace

(Accessed:17 April 2022)

6. Analytics Insight (2021) TOP 50 EMPOWERING WOMEN LEADERS TO FOLLOW IN 2022. Available at: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-50-empowering-women-leaders-to-follow-in-2021/

(Accessed:17 April 2022)

 

Comments

  1. Kasun WarnapuraMay 1, 2022 at 5:16 AM

    Employee leadership empowerment substantially increases motivation, performance, and commitment to the organization. Leadership empowerment includes self-determination, competence, meaning, and impact. The empowerment approach for women must be performed through a gender empowerment approach. Empowerment signifies the transformation of gender relations from a planned sequence of levels or ranks to equality rather than just fiddling with women’s positions of power.

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  2. maduwanthisilva.blogspot.comMay 2, 2022 at 9:04 AM

    Women play multiple role in society. In modern business world women even have entered male dominant leading positions. They bear leading positions in various fields such as entrepreneurship, education, administration, engineering, health and have shown better results. Although Leadership skills acquired by both men and women same, the way of showing distinctly different in women compared to men. unfortunately how talented women in leadership the opportunities for them are lesser than men. The talented women should be empowered and supported for the development of organisation as well as individuals.

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  3. Rohitha SamarathungeMay 3, 2022 at 8:51 AM

    “ Leadership is a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others,
    towards the achievement of a goal” (Forbes.com; Kruse, 2013). While there are many different
    variations of this definition, this one is particularly relevant to my graduate project as it is
    explaining how the employee perceives being lead that can influence their ability to feel
    motivated and committed to their job. Social influence “any change in an individual’s thoughts,
    feelings, or behaviors caused by other people, who may be actually present or whose presence is
    imagined, expected, or only implied” (APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2020)

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  4. P.Janaka Chaminda PereraMay 5, 2022 at 1:58 AM

    In the beyond three decades, there was a marked shift inside the method to ladies’ troubles from welfare to improvement. The second strategic pillar of the Eighth Development Plan emphasized ‘expanded interest to ladies’ affairs and improvement capabilities, and elimination of boundaries to participation with inside the improvement activities, consistent with the Islamic values and teachings. In this context, the plan identified one in all its ordinary targets as ‘the empowerment of ladies and increasing their participation in different areas, whether or not with inside the own circle of relatives or with inside the workplace, and to offer higher possibilities in decision-making and empowerment AL- Ahmadi , 2011)


    Reference
    Al-Ahmadi, H., 2011. Challenges facing women leaders in Saudi Arabia. Human Resource Development International, 14(2), pp.149-166.

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  5. Ishari WeerasingheMay 6, 2022 at 8:04 AM

    The leadership styles of women are quite different from that of men. Women make it easy to forge work relationships, they get things differently for the ultimate benefit of the organization. It has been found that employees feel more relaxed and included if there is a woman in top management.

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