blog 30

The main question in this blog is the conventional view of leadership style the overall view is for a style in which it is an aggressive one not a nurturing and sensitive one. Some styles of leadership discourage women because most require a high demand of power and authority. The issue then lies when conventional women are not viewed as very powerful people in the workplace. This can cause a wide arrange of insecurities for these women or become hurtfully disrespected. A year a ago I got involved in an organization that lobbies in the UN in regards family issues. The president of this organization is a woman. She is very soft spoken and humble but when it comes to debating, negotiating, and setting things right she not so soft spoken as she seems. I have seen and got offended by some men that have tried to ridiculed her due to her position but I know the reality is that she is a women and it seems harder to grasp that she not only the president of an international organization but she is also a very strong negotiator. She is what I call women that did not expect to be in this position but she has struggled to manage the behavior of non acceptance by other colleagues of her opposite sex. It is hard to see a women take on a “Men’s gender expectation” because most of those that we see as leaders tend to be men so when a women is in a position of power it is not only shocking but unrealistic. Not only is the women in this particular position ridiculed and questioned of her abilities but her femenity as well as her role as a women is question.
It takes a women of great character to not fall in the position of going back to the stereotypes that are constantly presented and instead become an over achiever. By setting a leadership style that is not scared and intimidated women in these positions of power not only function better so that they will not be harm by the negativity but serve as models for other women.