2. 53
49
Women leaders are rated more
positively than males on
effectiveness. Source: Zenger and Folkman, March 2012
3. “There is a special place in
hell for women who don't
help other women."
Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's
All-Decade Team, 2006
4. 3 of 4 Women who expressed a
preference said they would rather
work for a man than a woman
Source: Work & Power Survey, Elle and MSNBC, 2007
6. “Somewhere out in this
audience may even be
someone who will one day
follow in my footsteps, and
preside over the White House
as the President's spouse.
I wish him well!”
Barbara Bush, First Lady, Wellesley College Commencement
This tends to still be where we are in perception of ourselves and the feeds into the perception that other folks have of female leadership. But…
We’re already players. In an analysis by Senger of Folkman of thousands of those 360 evaluations we all know and love, female leadership is rated more positively than male leadership on almost every one of the 50 some odd dimensions.
What stands in our way. Too often, we do.
There are still too many women out there who done believe in female leadership
One of the symptoms of this lack of faith is woman on woman bullying. We’ve all seen it, and although many of us, including my own Martin team of leaders thing this phenom most often manifests as senior women trying to keep women down, I have run into many situations both personally and anecdotally about female leaders being sabotaged by subordinates, including admins and the like.
We also suffer from gender coding. Our expectations of ourselves and each other get trapped by the pervasive gender codes that are out there. That enable Mrs. Bush to make this compelling statement. Our expectations of leadership and what it is to be a leader is still cast in a male code.
We also suffer from gender coding. Our expectations of ourselves and each other get trapped by the pervasive gender codes that are out there. That enable Mrs. Bush to make this compelling statement. Our expectations of leadership and what it is to be a leader is still cast in a male code.
I know that there is know question about letting me or my lovely colleagues that are here from Martin play. We are players. Now it’s time to change the game by beginning with ourselves.