Women Leadership : A Management Perspective

Contents: Preface. 1. Leadership and issues relating to gender/A.K. Mishra. 2. Women in the management of police organisation/S.N. Sabat and Sunita Mishra. 3. Women leadership as tool for poverty reduction/Adesh Sharma. 4. Role of women in the globalized era/Kajal Singh and Vandana Singh. 5. Leadership challenges for women in future/Ravi Shekhar Vishal. 6. Women in "business" - the glass ceiling? Glass wall? or a glass House?/K.K. Bajpai and Amrita Bajpai. 7. Women empowerment through NGOs/R.S. Tripathi. 8. Status of women in the media : challenges and solution/Durgesh Tripathi. 9. Role of women in public relation/Sushma. 10. Challenges for Indian women journalist : new media scenario in India/Amit K. Singh and Mili Singh. 11. Indian women entrepreneurship development in Assam/Subash Chandra Pandey, Neeraj Shukla and Ambrish. 12. Scope for women entrepreneurship in Madhya Pradesh/Sharda Gangwar. 13. Issues and challenges of women empowerment in India/Jyoti and Suparn Sharma. 14. The real picture of women entrepreneur/Shiela Singh and Shilpi Srivastava. 15. Laws, development policies, plans and programmes for women's empowerment/Seema Tripathi and Alendra Kumar Tripathi. 16. Attitudes towards women at top managerial positions/Kalpana Singh.

"The book Women Leadership : A Management Perspective contains important articles relating to a vital issue like leadership and gender. Although there is no role of gender as far as the leadership is concerned yet there lies a social perception that male centered leadership is more accepted. In all most every field women of the country have taken lead. In spite of these facts social acceptance of women leadership is yet to be established. If some one looks into the present trend, he will find in every field i.e. in politics, entrepreneurship, management, military, medical, engineering women have shown equal potentialities. Gender based leadership is only a socially created phenomenon. Since there have been more male leaders than female leaders it can not be concluded that women lack leadership qualities. There could have been many other factors that prevented them from exercising those leadership qualities. Successful women leaders are considered leaders because of the presence of these qualities rather than gender. In fact leadership has been conceived in a very narrow term. Even though women are disadvantaged in many aspects in the country, they still show that they are quite able to perform the task of the leaders. Women can be offered responsibilities in different capacities.

This book will be helpful to the students and faculties of management. It will also be helpful to the students of psychology, sociology, mass communication, social work and women studies. The book will be immensely useful to the academicians and researchers working in the area of gender based leadership." (jacket)