Women in leadership – how successful are women in this day and age?
A leader has been defined as a person who has an ability to provide vision and direction to an organization and possesses the necessary attributes that can help in fostering the goals of that organization (Chliwniak in Growe and Montgomery, 1999; Donald, Dale, and Sonya, 2006). While various definitions of a leader do not mention the issue of gender anywhere, research show that leadership has been dominated by the male gender in the past. However, evidence show a modern female can make a good leaders just like his male counterpart; or even better. For example, studies conducted in education institutions in the past ...
