Gender Barriers To Leadership

Gender Barriers to Leadership Before the 1960’s, the ideal image of a family was the cliché father who worked all day and was in charge of all the financial issues. Women typically stayed home with the children and took care of the family and the house. In our world today, this is not as common and women are making their way into the workforce more and more each day. However, women have many obstacles when trying to advance and move up in relation to men. I will present a few barriers women experience and use the Textbook’s information to better understand how to overcome those obstacles before I fall victim to them. Women are relatively new to the labor force. The iconic Rosie the Riveter represents a movement that encouraged women to enter the workforce during World War II, to …show more content…
I do struggle with vision and if I want to achieve an effective leadership style, vision is something I need to improve. I am about to graduate college and I have failed to plan much further after. I have checked off all the requirements and I’ve done a good job at planning out semester by semester how to complete my degree, but what was my purpose, or vision? Ibarra presents information in “Women and the Vision Thing” that a manager could most likely get away without mastering a visionary mindset, however you can’t achieve leadership without articulating a vision. We’ve learned in school, that management deals mainly with operational activities, while leadership attends to the long-terms goals or vision. If I went into my college career with a personal vision, I may have paid more attention to my growth in intelligence and knowledge rather than complete classes and getting the grade. The theories presented fit all my needs and problems. My personality from my point of view describes someone who is risk averse, practical, and