Women Leadership Roles

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Although leadership has always been an important function in all social activities for millennia, the question of women leadership remains one of the major important issues globally because leadership is still associated with men and masculinity. In Côte d'Ivoire societies, women still remain underrepresented in many spheres, including administrative positions and executive settings. The under-representation of women in positions of power and decision-making is still an evidence today. By observing the social, administrative and political situation in Côte d'Ivoire, it is clear that power is not shared equally and the low professional representation of women justify that. Overall, few of them participate in administrative and political life.…show more content…
This situation constitutes in someway a handicap in the access of women to job opportunities. On the other hand, gender stereotypes stemming from patriarchy confine them to so-called low-skilled and low-paid feminine sectors. In Côte d'Ivoire, the average income of Ivorian women is 59% lower than that of men, a situation that accentuates the male predominance, mostly at the professional level (Moreau, 2014). Thus, the observation is that the subordination of the Ivorian women to men has become institutionalized due to their lower representation in the political and administrative sphere, the denial of their rights and education as well as the lack of government protection against abuse (Moreau,…show more content…
In addition, the literature reports several factors explaining this situation. These include the difficulty for women to reconcile work and family (Lips, 2006), the lack of opportunities for women to gain the work experience they need to progress hierarchically (Bell, McLaughlin & Sequeira, 2002), the discriminatory stereotypes in the workplace, such as the idea of less women's competence (Lips 2006, Carli 2001, Eagly & Karau 2002, Carli & Eagly 2001), or the argument of a typically feminine social-emotional leadership style (Rosener, 1990), which does not fit the predominantly masculine conception of organizational cultures (Landry,
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