Women Leaders Research Articles

More Than a Joke: The Intersection of Gender-Based Humor and Gender Inequities Experienced by Women Department Chairs in Academic Medicine.

Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study is to describe how women academic department chairs in emergency medicine, surgery, and anesthesiology experience humor in the workplace. Method: Interviews were conducted with 35 women department chairs in academic medicine from 27 institutions that aimed to describe women's leadership emergence. The data from the primary study yielded rich and revealing themes involving participants' experiences with humor in the context of their leadership roles, justifying a secondary analysis focusing specifically on these experiences. Relevant remarks were extracted, coded, and summarized. Results: Participants discussed two broad types of humor-related experiences. First, they described how they responded to aggressive gender-based humor directed at themselves or their colleagues by tolerating it or expressing disapproval. This humor includes demeaning quips, insulting monikers, sexist jokes, and derogatory stories. Participants often did not confront this humor directly as they feared being rejected or ostracized by colleagues. Second, they described how they initiated humor to address gender-related workplace issues by highlighting gender inequalities, coping with sexual harassment and assault, and managing gender-based leadership challenges. Participants felt constrained in their own use of humor because of the need to be taken seriously as women leaders. Conclusion: Women leaders in academic medicine use humor to confront gender-related issues and experience aggressive gender-based humor in the workplace. The constraints placed on women leaders discourage them from effectively confronting this aggressive gender-based humor and perpetuating gender inequities. Eliminating aggressive gender-based humor is needed to create safe and equitable work environments in academic medicine.

Location, location, location: How does residency program leadership vary according to geographic region?

Background: Faculty relationships are key to resident education. Residency applicants may find it more appealing to choose programs where the faculty have a similar background. With the addition of geographic preferences to the application process, applicants may find it beneficial to know general faculty makeup in each region. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship of geographic location and orthopaedic residency leadership characteristics. Methods: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and Doximity websites were queried in September 2022 to identify United States orthopaedic residency programs for the 2022-2023 cycle. Program attributes were categorized by region. Program leaders evaluated in this study consisted of Chairs, Vice Chairs, Program Directors (PDs), and Assistant PDs. Results: A total of 192 programs with 425 leaders were included. Leaders were mostly PDs (42.6%, n=181), men (88.7%, n=377), MDs (90.6%, n=385), and trained in the US (96.9%, n=412). The Northeast had the most programs (n=59, 30.7%) and leadership positions (n=136, 32.0%). The West had higher proportions of internationally-trained and women leaders (8.2%, P=0.046 and 18.0%, P=0.072), although the latter only trended towards significance. The South contained the lowest prevalence of internationally-trained leaders (0.8%, P=0.046). The Midwest exhibited the largest amount of DO leadership (16.0%, P=0.022). The Northeast had more surgeons subspecialized in hand/upper extremity (19.9% vs. 10.0%, P=0.033) yet relatively fewer in oncology (2.9% vs. 10.7%, P=0.041). Conclusions: Program attributes varied by region. This information is valuable to applicants and leaders as the field strives to strengthen and diversify its leadership.

The Women Leadership in Discourse of the Indonesian Wayang Golek

Puppets are not only entertainment but also reflect philosophical values. Arimbi Ngadeg Ratu, an Indonesian rod puppet, is full of wise advice, moral teachings, and philosophical phrases about politics and power. In emphasizing gender and leadership, women occupy roles defined in their specific positions within the hierarchy and simultaneously function within the constraints of their gender roles. This study uses the Gadamer hermeneutic for interpretation; the method is based on experience, history, and tradition from a cultural feminism perspective. Research findings show the role and position of women as mothers who nurture and educate their children to be good leaders. Women have complementary roles and positions in their families, but they must be able to be independent. Women also have the right to assemble, rehearse, lead an organization, and have the freedom to make their own choices. Women also have the same abilities as men to become political leaders and have equal opportunities to compete for power. Leadership roles for women are achieved by fighting in the realm of patriarchal norms. Reframing the image of women's political leadership from a gender viewpoint that considers keeping values and principles an operation of feminism seems proper.

Lived Experiences of Women Deans in Pakistani Universities-A Phenomenological Perspective

In the democratic Islamic Republic of Pakistan, everyone has the right to equality, regardless of ethnicity, gender, creed, or belief system. However, the ongoing gender discrepancy in leadership roles at HEIs undermines the status of women in leadership. The primary goal of this phenomenological research was to explore the realities and obstacles that Women faculty deans experience in higher education institutions. The information was acquired through an interview process with eight Women school deans at three distinct educational institutions in Lahore, Pakistan. NVIVO 11+ was then used to conduct a theme analysis. According to an inquiry into interview data, women at Pakistani universities encounter hurdles such as the selection process, gender stereotypes, a lack of support, networking opportunities, and mentors as they strive to become university leaders. Participants stated that in order to overcome the obstacles they experience, Women leaders should devote resources to personal growth, seek help from others, organise mentoring efforts networking platforms, and conduct research.

Fiqh Contestation on Women's Public Leadership in Indonesia and Malaysia: Reproducing Qur'anic and Hadith Interpretations

This paper discusses the contestation of women's public leadership discourse among feminist activists in Indonesia and Malaysia and how the reproduction of fiqh on women's public leadership in both countries takes place. This research is a field study with data collection through interviews and direct interaction with women activists in both countries and documenting their works. Using the Islamic activism approach, it was found that: 1) The issue of women leaders in Indonesia and Malaysia is complex. Women are often held back by culture, religion and politics. Muslim feminist groups face resistance from conservative groups when they try to challenge gender inequality. Furthermore, some sharia law make it harder for women to get legal protection and justice. More legal rights and support for women are therefore required to make politics more equal. 2) Feminist activists in Indonesia and Malaysia have reinterpreted Islamic texts to promote gender equality. They offer gender-responsive interpretation of the Qur'an and Hadith deemed to be fairer while supporting support social justice and gender equality. 3) The fiqh product of leadership concludes that the moral ideal in the Qur'an and hadith is for leaders to be competent (qawwām). People who fit this profile are well-suited to lead, particularly in a country that adheres to democratic principles.

Middle Managerial Capability, Teamwork Dan Performance: Studi Peran Leader Gender

The Republic of Indonesia Police considers the existence of women and children important, which is demonstrated by the formation of the Directorate of Women and Children Services (PPA). Empirically, female leadership in all its processes has a positive impact on organizational performance. For this reason, the concern in this research is women's leadership as an answer to the complexity of the work of the East Java Regional Police PPA. Research is urgent to be carried out, considering the high number of PPA cases for the East Java Regional Police as an effort to test the role of middle manager capability in shaping performance through teamwork, with a gender leader mechanism. The results of testing the interaction of leader gender as a moderator variable are shown by an interaction coefficient value of -0.189, with a p-value of 0.003 < 0.05, thus it can be said that leader gender influences the magnitude of the influence of middle manager capability (MMC) on teamwork (TMW). It can be said that the smaller the leader's gender (female leader), the stronger the influence of middle manager capability on teamwork.

The Influence of Cultural Pluralism on Women's Leadership Discourse: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis: Selected Models

The Influence of Cultural Pluralism on Women's Leadership Discourse: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis: Selected Models

Pathways to Leadership: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Women Leaders in Pakistan and United States

This study investigates the experiences of women in leadership roles within higher education institutions in Pakistan and the United States. The main aim is to understand how women describe their experiences in attaining, advancing, and maintaining leadership positions in higher education. It contributes to theoretical understandings of women's leadership and highlighting unique challenges and opportunities in different cultural contexts. This study employs Mezirow's (2003) Critical Reflection Theory as a theoretical framework to guide participants' retrospective storytelling process. Through qualitative research methods including semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis of interview transcripts, the study explores how women navigate their journeys to leadership positions and the challenges they encounter. Despite cultural variations, female leaders in both countries face comparable obstacles such as gender bias and limited training opportunities. To empower these leaders, policies should prioritize formal leadership training, address workplace bias, and support work-life balance initiatives. Policy implications include the implementation of formal leadership training programs, addressing unconscious bias, and supporting family-friendly policies to empower female leaders. Advocacy for legislative measures promoting gender equality in leadership positions is crucial for creating supportive policy environments globally. Keywords: Cross culture, work life balance, leadership, gender gap, networking, and mentorship

From Tolerance to Transformation: Unraveling the Impact of Organizational Culture and Policies on Addressing Gaslighting in Academia

This paper explored gaslighting in academia, focusing on its impact on women's career development and leadership experiences. Using feminist and critical race theories, the study examined how organizational culture, mentorship, networks, and policies supported or hindered women's academic careers. An inter-sectional perspective revealed how race, ethnicity, and disability intersected with gender to shape women's experiences in academic leadership. The paper analyzed how gaslighting operated in academia and the various forms it took. It also examined strategies for institutions and individuals to challenge gaslighting and promote a culture of equity and respect. Drawing inspiration from Kate Elizabeth Russell's My Dark Vanessa and Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal, the research offered insights into psychological manipulation, gender dynamics, and power relations within the academic sphere. Keywords: Gaslighting, Organizational Culture, Academia, Women, Leadership, Psychological Manipulation, Feminist theory, Critical Race Theory

Human social responsibility from challenges to achievements: discursive empowerment of women innovators across organizational borders

PurposeThe paper explains how challenges and achievements of human social responsibility (HSR) are addressed by women innovators across the organizational borders of various industries. More precisely, this qualitative study’s goal is to clarify the empowering roles of discursive strategies employed by Women in Innovation (WIN) organization when communicating about women innovators’ demanding realities and about their collaborative initiatives meant to generate changes related to gender, diversity and intersectionality. The WIN members include women leaders in the innovation space with extensive professional, advisory and international experience.Design/methodology/approachThe paper proposes an approach that brings together perspectives upon empowerment, perspectives on social, intellectual and symbolic capital and a social semiotic perspective on discourse. The WIN blogs are investigated to facilitate: first, an understanding of how discursive strategies recontextualize the women innovators’ identities and actions and second, an understanding of how these discursive strategies contribute to sustaining and legitimizing dynamic social capital while building new intellectual capital and symbolic capital across organizational borders.FindingsThe WIN discourses both disclose contemporary gender, diversity and intersectionality challenges across organizational borders as well as promote ways of breaking the barriers that prevent women innovators from thriving. The discursive strategies recontextualize women innovators as resourceful social actors with multiple identities. Their social actions are discursively recontextualized as collaborative challenge-solving enterprises. These recurrent discursive strategies accomplish empowering functions at individual, relational and collective well-being levels through materializing new intellectual and symbolic capital when revealing the manifestations of bridging and bonding social capital.Originality/valueThis paper provides a novel integrative approach to explaining in detail the complexity of empowering discourses at several levels of analytical delicacy. It responds to the needs of HSR research and practice for gaining more insights into the challenges of communicating effectively about how to create a more socially responsible world.

‘Intersectional collaboration’: a new form of leadership from the WomenEd movement

ABSTRACT This paper takes an interest in tackling inequalities in school communities and considers how networks of change agents can work together to enact change. To do so, an ethnographic study is conducted examining WomenEd, a charity and grassroots movement of aspiring and existing women leaders in education. Building upon the perspective of collective leadership as a social process, the ‘social-symbolic work’ perspective is applied to analyse the activities of the movement. By drawing upon observations and interviews conducted over a three-year period, this paper offers detailed depictions of the motivations, practices, and effects of the social-symbolic work of WomenEd. The study observes a form of collective leadership underpinned by valuing difference, which enables participants to respond to oppressive school conditions and achieve shifts in autonomy and agential institutional influence. The study thus advances understanding of collective power, or ‘power with’, and the practical activities which can affect change, ‘power work’. Building upon Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality, we term the WomenEd practices ‘intersectional collaboration’, a novel form of collective leadership for social change. The study highlights the significance of inclusion and intersectionality in theorising ‘collectivity’, which has implications for understanding collective leadership and social change.

Women in Leadership, Skilled Workforce, and Firm Performance in Bangladesh: A Machine Learning Analysis on Enterprise Survey Data

Women in Leadership, Skilled Workforce, and Firm Performance in Bangladesh: A Machine Learning Analysis on Enterprise Survey Data

Role of Fintech in Transforming India’s BFSI Sector and Women's Participation

Technological advancements within the BFSI Sector are strategically aimed at providing an elevated and more satisfying user experience for customers globally. This objective is central to the progress of financial technology (Fintech), which undergoes close monitoring and scrutiny. In India, there has been a notable acceleration in the evolution of digital finance, especially following the significant event of the 2016 demonetization of banknotes. This transformative period has led to rapid changes and an increased reliance on digital financial solutions. Sub-technologies within the Fintech landscape play pivotal roles, suggesting a growth trajectory poised to outrun traditional financial models in the coming years. This study comprehensively reviews recent trends within the Indian economy, emphasizing Fintech's profound impact. It also explores the contributions of women in leadership, technical, and managerial positions to India’s Fintech growth.

Gendered Deification: Women Leaders and Political Iconography in Bangladesh

This paper explores gendered political deification in Bangladesh with emphasis on the situation of women politicians in Bangladesh today. Using political deification tools developed by Sen and Nielsen with the help of the concept of political leadership feminism, we look at the interaction of gender with the construction of political imagery. In accomplishing this research, critical discourse analysis and visual semiotics are employed to establish an understanding of the representation and received portrayal of two key Bangladeshi ‘women of power’, namely, Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia. These findings uncover a multi-layered duality based on the gender and dynastic-political relations in Bangladesh, along with the persona of the supreme leader of a country. We map out how the concept of mother and family relations is mobilized to build strong political discourses, even as the patriarchal framework is both affirmed and subverted. In trying to attain gender equality, female leaders obtain the most political power but are subject to gender roles and, at times, contribute to the perpetuation of those roles. By contextualizing this study in South Asian politics, we are indeed helping the existing scholarly discourse on gender and political iconography, women’s participation in democratization, and the dilemmas of female leadership in patriarchal societies. This study advances knowledge on gender, power, and political symbolism in SA with the potential for introducing similar phenomena in other cultural settings.

Challenges for women's leadership in organisations, from the perspective of judge and prophetess Deborah

Challenges for women's leadership in organisations, from the perspective of judge and prophetess Deborah

Kontroversi Kepemimpinan Wanita: Perbedaan Pandangan Hadis Bukhari Dan UU Pasal 27 Ayat 1

In this research, we will explore and explain further the link of Bukhari's hadith regarding women's leadership and the provisions of Article 27 paragraph 1 of the Law on Gender Equality in Leadership Positions. This research was conducted using a multidisciplinary approach that combines textual analysis, historical-critical methods, and legal methods. The findings show that Bukhari's hadith about women's leadership needs to be understood in its socio-historical context and cannot be interpreted from the text alone. On top of that, this research found that the spirit of gender equality in Article 27 paragraph 1 of the law is in line with Islamic rules for creating a fair and beneficial system. Therefore, the reconciliation of religious values and positive legal norms regarding women's leadership can be achieved by considering the comprehensive interpretation of the Bukhari hadith and the contextual application of Law Article 27 paragraph 1. Women's leadership is an important issue that has sparked debate throughout the world, including Indonesia . This debate is rooted in the dialectic between religious values and positive legal norms. In Islamic studies, the placement of certain hadiths in the Sahih Bukhari book is often interpreted as preventing women from occupying leadership positions. On the other hand, Article 27 paragraph 1 of the Law firmly guarantees the right of every citizen to take leadership roles without gender discrimination.

Situational context of home-based sexual education in urban slums of Ibadan, Nigeria-evidence from a qualitative study.

This study explores the influence of situational context on parent-adolescent communication about sexual and reproductive health (SRH) issues in the urban slums of Ibadan, Nigeria. A qualitative exploratory study was conducted in the Southeast and Northeast LGAs of Ibadan. Eight (8) vignette-based focus group discussions (FGDs) with parents and adolescents of both sexes were conducted in addition to four (4) key informant interviews (KIIs) with community and women's leaders. Interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed, and translated into English. Thematic analysis was adopted using ATLAS Ti 9 software. Findings portray SRH meanings and experiences, intergenerational cultural norms, and expectations for SRH, gender double standards in SRH discussion, streetwise SRH knowledge, and social media exposure as contexts that interfere with parent-adolescent communication on SRH issues. The findings show that despite understanding the need for SRH discussion, parents and adolescents lack effective communication on SRH issues due to the interference of unfiltered streetwise SRH knowledge and social media exposure. Also, SRH conversation between parents and adolescents promotes gender inequalities as different information is passed to adolescent girls and boys. Interventions that take into account situational occurrences must be geared towards enabling parents to give their adolescents early exposure to relevant, context-specific SRH knowledge.

RESISTANCE OF NU AND AUMA RELATIONS IN PAMEKASAN REGENCY

Abstract: Looking at the fact that there is a practice of intolerance with violence that occurred in Pamekasan shows that there is polarization of Muslim groups in Pamekasan with the growth of right-wing groups such as AUMA. This research aims to reveal the resistance of AUMA and NU Pamekasan using a qualitative phenomenological approach, data collection was carried out using interviews, observation and documentation. This research utilizes Gilin's relationship theory, namely whether the relationship between NU and AUMA carries out compromise, mediation, conciliation, restraint and court proceedings. The results of this research show that AUMA has a very dominant influence in cases of violence in the name of religion in Pamekasan. This occurs because of AUMA and NU's resistance to several religious thoughts that are not in line, AUMA does not agree with NU regarding Indonesian Islam, women leaders and several issues. other. Cases such as the burning of tourist land and the siege of officials' houses are forms of resistance between the two. The results of this research are also in sharp contrast to Hamdi's research. Where Hamdi found that the relationship between NU and the former FPI in Bangkalan was very good, so that there was a leadership merger between the former FPI and used this good relationship as a force to reduce acts of intolerance. One of the factors that strengthened the AUMA Effect in Pamekasan was the existence of an idea or regional regulation regarding Pintusalam where Islamism in Pamekasan became the embryo of AUMA religious thought.

Breaking the concrete ceiling: Resources and strategies for career success amongst Black and Asian minority ethnic women leaders

AbstractDespite ongoing research efforts to resolve the pertinent issues with the underrepresentation of women from Black and Asian Minority Ethnic backgrounds in senior leadership positions, the problem persists. We suggest that one reason for the lack of progress is that management research has predominantly focused on the manifestation of race and gender inequality, the barriers experienced by these women, and the resulting adverse outcomes, with inadequate attention given to practical interventions for resolving these issues. We argue that an urgent and critical paradigm shift from problems to solutions is required in order to advance the field. Using the conservation of resource theory as a lens, we explore the lived experiences of 50 highly successful Black and Asian women and how they navigated the organizational labyrinth to achieve success in their careers. Our findings revealed that despite discriminatory experiences that threatened their career advancement, there were several personal and contextual resources which they drew upon to achieve career success. We develop a resource taxonomy framework illustrating these salient career advancement resources across their career journey, alongside strategies they used to protect these valuable resources. Our findings have theoretical and practical implications for career, leadership and diversity scholars and practitioners.

Women in leadership of higher education: critical barriers in Jordanian universities

Women in leadership of higher education: critical barriers in Jordanian universities