Gender Differences in Leadership

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Gender Differences in Leadership

• Presentation By
• Zack Aprea, Mike Gencarelli, Liz Jordan, Melissa
  Landry, Brendan Nelson, Lars Nordgaard, and Anna
  Slocum

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To get you thinking about gender roles in
LEADERSHIP.

• Individually answer the following questions
  (there is NO right answer, but you must choose
  Agree or Disagree for each!)
• Swearing and obscenities are more repulsive in
  the speech of a female.
• Under modern conditions, men should share in
  household tasks such as washing dishes and doing
  laundry.
• A woman should be as free to propose as a man.
• Women earning as much as their dates should offer
  to pay when they go out together.

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The History

• Historically, men have held most leadership
  positions
• In a business setting, men usually are depicted
  as
• Higher participation
• More responsibility
• Higher confidence in verbal and non verbal
  communication
• Creates stereotypes and gender roles
• Men hold mechanical roles
• Women hold domestic roles
• Women in leadership
• Expected to run household
• 12.5 Corporate leadership roles1
• Resistance from men
• 1 Audet, Lynda, Steven H Appelbaum, and Joanne C
  Miller. "Gender and leadership? Leadership and
  gender? A journey through the landscape of
  theories. " Leadership Organization Development
  Journal  24.1/2 (2003) 43-51. ABI/INFORM
  Global. ProQuest.  4 Apr. 2009

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Male Leadership

• Men follow the Traditional Leadership Model, also
  known as the Masculine Leadership Model
• Position Power Spender
• Command-and-Control
• Task-Oriented
• Autocratic
• Punishment-Oriented

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Advantages of Male Leadership Styles

• Higher work efficiency
• Faster problem resolution
• Favorable in a team sport or military environment

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Disadvantages of Male Leadership

• Tends to be less motivational
• Higher absenteeism and turnover
• Unethical practices can occur which can be
  detrimental to an organization

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Female Leadership

• Females follow the Modern Leadership Model, also
  known as the Feminine Leadership Model
• Personal power spender
• Democratic
• Team Player
• Transformational
• Reward-Oriented

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Advantages of Female Leadership

• Higher group cohesiveness
• Creation of a cooperative atmosphere
• More ideas through encouraged participation
• High empowerment for employees
• Motivation leads to lower turnover and
  absenteeism

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Disadvantages of Female Leadership

• Tends to be less efficient
• Valuable time can be lost during group
  discussions and feedback
• Not all people are receptive to the female style
• Stereotyping and generalizations

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Organizational Practices to Address Gender
Differences

• In order to have an effective work environment,
  differences between male and female leaders must
  be understood and addressed
• Hire managers that are open minded and willing to
  reverse stereotypes
• Create a mentor system
• Pair men and woman together as co-leaders to get
  the benefits of both styles
• Use male leaders in situations that will benefit
  from their style, and use female leaders in
  situations that are better suited for their
  leadership approach

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BATTLE OF THE SEXES

• Heres a little game to see which sex is more
  dominant!

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Quote by which sex?

• Only one man in a thousand is a leader of
  men-the other 999 follow women.

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Quote by which sex?

• The leadership instinct you are born with is the
  backbone. You develop the funny bone and the
  wishbone that go with it.

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Quote by which sex?

• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to
  do something you want done because he wants to do
  it.

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Quote by which sex?

• If your actions inspire others to dream more,
  learn more, do more and become more, you are a
  leader.

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Quote by which sex?

• I start with the premise that the function of
  leadership is to produce more leaders, not more
  followers.

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Quote by which sex?

• A good leader inspires people to have confidence
  in the leader, a great leader inspires people to
  have confidence in themselves.

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Quote by which sex?

• One never notices what has been done one can
  only see what remains to be done.

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Quote by which sex?

• Never . . . Never . . . Never . . . Never Give
  up!

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Quote by which sex?

• A leader takes people where they want to go. A
  great leader takes people where they dont
  necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

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Quote by which sex?

• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

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Overall.

• Match leadership styles based on the employees
  and the working environment
• Always take into consideration the personality
  and style of each individual leader
• Dont assume gender differences or make
  generalizations