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Women’s mentoring, networking, and coaching of other women leaders, as well as women’s professional organizations, also supports women’s entry to leadership. [2] However, research has also found a phenomenon known as “queen bee,” where some women leaders may share stereotypical biases against women and legitimize gender inequality.
Leadership is the process through which an individual guides and motivates a group towards the achievement of common goals. In studies that found a gender difference, women adopted participative styles of leadership and were more transformational leaders than men. Other studies find that no significant gender differences in leadership exist.
In 2005, a year-long study conducted by Caliper, a Princeton, New Jersey–based management consulting firm, and Aurora, a London-based organization that advances women, identified a number of characteristics that distinguish women leaders from men when it comes to qualities of leadership: [12] "Women leaders are more assertive and persuasive ...
Abibatu Mogaji (1917–2013), business magnate, President-General, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men; Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (born 1975), social entrepreneur, co-founder of AACE Food Processing & Distribution, founder of LEAD Africa, a non-profit enterprise encouraging business leadership and development
A demonstrator holds a sign while gathering on the National Mall during the Women's March in Washington D.C., U.S., on Jan. 21, 2017. Credit - Eric Thayer–Bloomberg—Getty Images
Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Business and Professions (1997) Krismann, Carol. Encyclopedia of American Women in Business From Colonial Times to the Present (2004) Lin Coughlin, Ellen Wingard, and Keith Hollihan, Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership