Gender Difference in Leadership position

In all the managerial positions, women are still underrepresented. Governments of the world are fighting for gender development programs that embrace gender equity and fairness in all positions of management and leadership. In employment sectors, you can get a higher percentage of women employed but a negligible percentage is in leadership positions. Moreover, the low number of women in managerial positions may be caused by the belief that men are better leaders than women. Men employ masculine characteristics, which include power and control to manage the attributes of a good leader. Therefore, women cannot be denied to play these leadership roles of public relations. However, it is not strange to find that in other organization, men are given more priorities in jobs that seem to favour women.

This is because of the perception that women cannot productive as compared to men. Additionally, according to Brandt et al. (2013), leadership is about attitude and action. Many theories tried to exploit about gender and leadership position. These theories include behavioural, situational relational and new leadership approach. The gender difference in leadership as addressed by those theories affects leadership aspects in every organization and all social aspects of life. The major effect of gender in leadership is that women are assumed to less competent and less worthy to hold leadership positions. Adaptations of expectations by leaders depend on the categorization of people as either male or female. The personal difference of men from women is that, men have confidence, emotional and act more than just thinking.

Therefore, men are more considered to be the best leaders than women and this brings gender difference in leadership positions (Wang, An-Chih, et al. The fact that women are perceived to be weaker in leadership positions than men also influence the way they lead when they are given leadership positions. Their expectations are minimal and the perception of women leaders is greatly affected by stereotypes. This can affect women’s decision process and how they execute their leadership roles that are centric to inspire the teams they lead and communication skills (Tate and Yang, 2015). References Brandt, Tiina, and Maarit Laiho. "Gender and personality in transformational leadership context: An examination of leader and subordinate perspectives. " Leadership & Organization Development Journal 34. Johnson, Blair T.