Women Leadership: Literature Review on Impact and Challenges

This report presents a literature review on women leadership, examining its influence and impact within organizations. It explores the increasing presence of women in leadership roles across various sectors, highlighting their ability to balance work and life, foster positive work environments, and contribute unique skills such as multitasking and open communication. The report delves into the gender pay gap, emphasizing how women leadership can address inequalities and promote diverse perspectives for better decision-making. It also discusses the benefits of gender equity and the challenges women face, including hurdles in mentoring and balancing family responsibilities. Furthermore, the report analyzes the impact of women in health leadership, highlighting their contributions to sustainable development and organizational ethics. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of women in decision-making and maintaining gender justice, supported by references to various articles and journals. This assignment is available on Desklib, a platform offering AI-based study tools and resources for students.

ACADEMIC SKILL

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Engagement with literature skills...........................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTION
The leadership is considered as a process in which a person can influence and guides others
for achieving a specific goals and objectives for a particular situation. They have the capacity to
manage all the work on employees. Women are more capable of being a leader as compared to

men as they have the capacity to maintain both work and life. The female leaders are able to
focus on transformational by describing contingent reward behaviour. They also have the ability
to enhance the group members by boosting their enthusiasm and capabilities. In this report, it
covers the literature review of women leadership which is given by different authors of articles,
Journals, textbooks and many more sources.
Engagement with literature skills
Women are making their leadership presence in every area such as engineering, education,
entrepreneurship and many more at regional level, national level as well as global level
(Amaladas and Byrne, 2017). The leadership has the ability to influence others for completing
the aims and objectives. According to Annie Megan (2020), the business which is owned by
women has an increase of 1.5 times. The organisation that is having female leadership tends to
be more positive environment as well as they have the potential and capabilities which are
overwhelming. The attributes all women leader make some more sing with the others such as
pressure handling, multitasking, open communication and so on. In viewpoint of the author, the
gender gap can be close with the help of women leadership. The gender pay gap is the gap
between the wages and opportunities which are provided to both men and women are different in
an organisation. This gap can be found in every organisation. In almost every organisation, the
men are offered more opportunities and position that is having high pain leadership. Women
leadership can fill this gap effectively. Along with this, different cultures and backgrounds play
an important role in promoting developments as diverse perspectives result in better decision
making and as a result, organisations with elevated rates of growth appear to outgrow others with
lower level of diversity. Being a woman as a leader in an organisation can bring skills and
perspectives with sense of awareness which helps them in finding what is happening in the
organisation (Lampi and Reynolds, 2018). According to the author, a workplace should have a
combination of both men and women as a leader which can lead to increasing their productivity,
growth, performance and many more. This combination of leadership can bring almost 20%
above average profitability of the organisation. In addition to this, many women in an
organisation faces hurdles while mentoring by a man as a leader. To overcome from this
problem, women leadership should be there in an organisation so that they can empower all the
women who are working with them. In the viewpoint of author, women in an organisation can
help in improving the process and also enhancing the work among the teams. Women have the

ability to negotiate and making effective deals which leads in achieving the agreements and also
cracking of deals when men are not able to do. The organisation should empower women good
assigning leadership role which helps in encouraging the work environment.
According to Dena Javadi and et. al., (2016), gender equity is defined as the process of being fair
to both men and women and also promote them on the basis of equality in an organisation.
Gender inequality leads to completely avoidable mortality rates both actively an implicitly and as
a result of socio economic determinants of women’s health and their reduced access to resources
needed to maintain a higher standard of living. The problems are occurred in gender equity in
respect to health leadership across the globe in which the women make about 75% of health
workforce in almost all the countries where the wages paid to them are much lower as compared
to men who are having the same managerial and leadership roles (Rezaei, Raisi and Jalilian,
2018). In fact, women as health leaders which have significant implication health of the
population such as the leadership position has an effect on the motivation as well as job of
women which are working in health workforce. Along with this, they also have potential benefits
in sustainable development.
According to Julio de Castro, Rachida and Lusia Delgado-Márquez (2018), woman creates
a great impact on the management teams which is associated weather strong and powerful social
commitment. There is high impact on the organisations and purpose which leads in motivation
and better results. Businesses and management led by women creates a positive impact on the
social motivation as well as able to achieve that aims and objectives of the organisation. Along
with this, women in organisation are more inclined towards the family friendly policies. The
woman in a business tries to maintain a balance between personal life and professional life as
well as growing and becoming a leader. The gender diversity of an organisation determines its
goal with a social dimension responsible for a greater share of its key challenges. These feminine
sensibilities which vary from those of men have extended to other area of the company such as
sustainable development and organisational ethics. Along with this, women that are in leadership
position in an organisation has a huge impact on boosting the motivation as well as performance
of other employees such as the employees has a greater number of participation in decision
making, helping out people in the community, creating a huge awareness about the environment
and many more. The author also highlighted about a fact that there is chances of conflicts when
there are more numbers of women present in an organisation as compared to men. There are

various hurdles faced by women when working for an organisation such as her motherhood,
marriage and household works which are considered as traditional hurdles. The woman has to
maintain a balance between her family and business. They are trying their best to overcome from
the obstacles by introducing various policies for work life balance.
The UK is also running various programs for women leadership development by various
business schools and universities such as Cass Business School, University of Oxford, London
Business School and many more (Taylor and Ramelli, 2021). This program helps women in
getting knowledge and skills and also helps in creating personal developing plans for gain
confidence to become leaders in the future.
According to Sarada (2020), Sara Gilbert is considered as the most influential person of
UK. Sara Gilbert is a professor of vaccinology at University of Oxford as well as cofounder of
vaccitech. The scientist has able to develop coronavirus vaccine that can save the world from
COVID-19. This vaccine has developed with the help of her and her team which has a proven
record that it protect against the virus by 90% as well as easily available at cheaper prices. As per
the author, Sara is having 25 years of experience in developing vaccines for viruses such as flu,
ebola and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that women are considered to be powerful in
changing and benefiting to the diversity as well as gender equality in terms of leadership and
decision-making in all the functional areas. Women as leader and being a decision maker at all
the levels and maintaining the gender justice as well as gender equality. They are able to balance
between professional as well as personal life while being a leader and working for an
organisation. In this report, it includes women leadership as given by different authors from
various articles and journals in the form of literature review.
REFERENCES
Book & journals
Amaladas, S. and Byrne, S. eds., 2017. Peace leadership: The quest for connectedness.
Routledge.

Lampi, J. P. and Reynolds, T., 2018. Connecting practice & research: From rote composition
skills to academic involvement. Journal of Developmental Education, 42(1), p.28.
Rezaei, A., Raisi, K. and Jalilian, S., 2018. The Study of Effective of Academic Self-Efficacy
and Meta-Cognitive Skills on Academic Achievement of Agricultural Students of
Saravan Institute of Higher Education. Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and
Development Research, 49(4), pp.749-764.
Taylor, J. E. and Ramelli, I. L. eds., 2021. Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity.
Oxford University Press, USA.
Online
(Highlighting Importance Of Women Leadership In Your Organization, 2020) [Online]
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Leadership-In-Your-Organization/
(Female Leadership: The Impact on Organizations, 2018) [Online] Available through;
https://www.ie.edu/insights/articles/female-leadership-the-impact-on-organizations/
(12 Women Leaders That Changed The World In 2020, 2020) [Online] Available through;
https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/women-leaders-2020
(Women Who Lead: Successes and Challenges of Five Health Leaders, 2016) Available through;
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2016.1225471?
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