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Women and Leadership in West Africa by F. Steady Pdf
This book examines women and leadership in West Africa, with a special focus on Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—the Mano River Union countries. These countries have traditions of indigenous female leadership in executive positions in varying degrees, and all three have a tradition of organizations that form important power bases for women.
Author : Kelly Ann Krawczyk,Bridgett A. King Publisher : Springer Nature Page : 321 pages File Size : 43,9 Mb Release : 2023-02-28 Category : Social Science ISBN : 9789811981906
Women’s Contributions to Development in West Africa by Kelly Ann Krawczyk,Bridgett A. King Pdf
This book examines women’s participation in social, economic and political development in West Africa. The book looks at women from the premise of being active agents in the development processes within their communities, thereby subverting the dominate narrative of women as passive recipients of development.
African Women and Intellectual Leadership by Dannica Fleuss,Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi,Emily Achieng' Akuno,Humphrey J. Ojwang Pdf
"This book highlights the pioneering roles of African women as leaders and role models in Kenya, providing examples taken from across education, health, business, and a range of other sectors. Drawing on authentic first-hand accounts and narratives from key women in leadership positions, and those who have lived with them, the book presents the life stories of women leaders over the last fifty years, aiming to preserve their contributions for posterity and to inspire young people with moral, ethical, and progressive role models. The book uses African knowledge production strategies that look at the human being holistically, in the prism of Ubuntu, in order to define leadership in Africa from an African perspective, one that celebrates the role of the mother figure and places women at the centre of African values and societal dynamics. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of African studies, gender studies, and Kenyan education and socio-political history"--
Political Leadership And African Women: With a Focus on West Africa by Amadou Beidy Sow Pdf
This book presents a prototype of leadership that can be applicable to other societies and groups. This work is neither based on the comparison between women and men as political leaders nor is it concerned about any woman politician. It focuses on women who are involved in politics in Africa especially in West Africa. It examines the social, religious, economic, political, and educational experiences of women who are political leaders.
Political Leadership and African Women by Amadou Beidy Sow Pdf
This book presents a prototype of leadership that can be applicable to other societies and groups. This work is neither based on the comparison between women and men as political leaders nor is it concerned about any woman politician. It focuses on women who are involved in politics in Africa especially in West Africa. It examines the social, religious, economic, political, and educational experiences of women who are political leaders.
Developing Global Leaders by Eva Jordans,Bettina Ng’weno,Helen Spencer-Oatey Pdf
This book is a timely guide on what constitutes effective leadership in Africa. It explores how today’s leaders in Africa perceive their role, the challenges they experience, and how they operate effectively as leaders. In the era of globalization, there is an increasing need to offer guidance on how leaders can adjust their leadership style to suit situational contexts. Drawing on case study and survey data, this book illustrates to scholars and leaders worldwide the vision of leadership that is emerging in Africa. It will contribute to the development of a new community of global leaders, integrating cutting-edge knowledge on leadership development in Africa.
African Women's Movements by Aili Mari Tripp,Isabel Casimiro,Joy Kwesiga,Alice Mungwa Pdf
Women burst onto the political scene in Africa after the 1990s, claiming more than one third of the parliamentary seats in countries like Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi. Women in Rwanda hold the highest percentage of legislative seats in the world. Women's movements lobbied for constitutional reforms and new legislation to expand women's rights. This book examines the convergence of factors behind these dramatic developments, including the emergence of autonomous women's movements, changes in international and regional norms regarding women's rights and representation, the availability of new resources to advance women's status, and the end of civil conflict. The book focuses on the cases of Cameroon, Uganda, and Mozambique, situating these countries in the broader African context. The authors provide a fascinating analysis of the way in which women are transforming the political landscape in Africa, by bringing to bear their unique perspectives as scholars who have also been parliamentarians, transnational activists, and leaders in these movements.
Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and South Africa by Naleli Mpho Soledad Morojele Pdf
Narratives of Triumph and Loss explores the successes, challenges and controversies of women‘s post-conflict political leadership. Through interviews with women who have held significant leadership positions, the book explores the relationships between their educational, professional, activist and personal backgrounds. It situates their stories within historical and contemporary political contexts, illustrating the gendered ways in which women experience politics as citizens and politicians.
Research Anthology on Challenges for Women in Leadership Roles by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf
The role of women in the workplace has rapidly advanced and changed within the previous decade, leading to a current position in which women are taking over leadership roles and being offered these positions more than ever before. However, a gap still exists with the representation of women in the workforce especially in power positions and roles of authority in organizations. While the representation of women in leadership roles is impressive and exciting for the future, women still face many challenges when taking over these positions of power and face many issues related to gender inclusivity. There is also still gender bias and discrimination against women who have been given the opportunity to become authority figures. It is essential to acknowledge and discuss these critical issues and challenges that women in leadership roles must handle to better understand the current climate of gender roles across various industries and types of leadership. The Research Anthology on Challenges for Women in Leadership Roles discusses the role of women in positions of authority across diverse industries and businesses. By reviewing the biases, struggles, discrimination, and overall challenges of being a woman in a powerful role, women leaders can be better understood for their role in a male-dominated world. This includes topics of concern such as equal treatment, proper implementation of women’s policies, social justice activism, discrimination, and sexual harassment in the workplace, and the importance of diversity and empowerment of women in leadership positions with chapters pertaining specifically to African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and Middle Eastern women. This book is ideal for professionals, researchers, managers, executives, leaders, academicians, sociologists, policymakers, and students in fields that include humanities, social sciences, women’s studies, gender studies, business management, management science, health sciences, educational studies, and political sciences.
Women Leadership in Emerging Markets by Shireen Chengadu,Caren Scheepers Pdf
This book focuses on the increase in female leadership over the last fifty years, and the concrete benefits and challenges this leads to in organizations. It moves beyond the typical focus on developed, Western contexts and answers the call for research on how women in emerging markets rise above the proverbial “glass ceiling”. The authors integrate two underdeveloped topics that are highly relevant to modern business: women in leadership roles, and women in emerging markets. They examine how women leaders in a range of professional services—including accounting, consulting, law, engineering and medicine—have managed to navigate their careers while considering the role emerging markets play in their work. Based on cutting-edge research, the topics are brought to life through examples and profiles of leading women across Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. These narratives, told in the leaders’ own words, are key to understanding women’s achievements and the barriers they face. Students of leadership, diversity, gender studies, and human resource management will learn much from this insightful book.
Women Leaders of Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific by Guida M. Jackson Pdf
Women Leaders of Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific presents biographical sketches of hundreds of women leaders from earliest recorded history down to the present time. It is the first of two volumes giving data on women leaders from every continent and island in the world; the second volume deals with Europe and countries of the Western Hemisphere. Each book is divided into two sections. Part I of this volume deals with African women leaders; Part II with Asian, Middle East and Pacific women. Within each section, which is introduced by an essay overview, entries are arranged alphabetically. Suggestions for further reading on the subject appear at the end of each entry. Not all entries are merely recitations of facts. Some womens lives do not lend themselves to being reduced to statistics. Many were much too colorful, or lusty, or bloodthirsty to fit into a neat categorical description. How do you easily characterize the rule of the African queen who hacked her servant to death after she was through using him as a chairjust to intimidate her new Portuguese overlord? Who kept as many as thirty slaves as sexual partners, supposedly killing them off when she had finished with them? How do you gloss over the actions of the newly enthroned Persian queen who ordered her stepbrother strangled, then had gold and silver coins struck bearing her new title: Purity of the earthly world and of the faith? How do you describe nicely the actions of the Chinese queen who chopped off her own hand to make a point to a man she had just condemned to death? How do you ascribe feminine traits to a grandmother who tried to kill her own grandson to keep him from succeeding her on the throne she herself had stolen? On the other hand, how do you do justice to the Queen of Tonga without mention of her commanding sizesix feet two inchesor her forty-seven-year devotion to matters far beyond mere governance but of more importance to her subjects: like establishing handicraft outlets to market the wares of her people? Or to the Queen of Thailand who acted as Regent while the King, a devout Buddhist, performed his meditations and duties as a monk? She directed much more than affairs of state; her concern for the common people led her to promote the export of hand-woven Thai silk and to establish a chain of shops selling native crafts. She also organized the Thai Red Cross for aid to refugees, orphans, wounded soldiers, and flood victims. These and dozens of stories like them make African, Asian, Middle East, and Pacific Women Leaders a unique treasure that is hard to put down. Although most of the entries in this volume deal with women rulers, a portion of the book is devoted to women in leadership roles other than those of queen, empress, prime minister, or chieftainess. Of these additional entries, the majority deals with contemporary women judges, secretaries of state, cabinet members, or legislators of unusual influence and power.
Extrait de la couverture : "Despite the advance towards recognition of women's political, economic, and social equality with men during the twentieth century, there is a continuing ack of women leaders to determine the political, economic, and social progress of humanity. Women have created thousands of vibrant, visionary organisations of their own, with considerable recent success in influencing national and international policy formation. While these achievement are to be saluted, women remain absent from the key political and economic institutions shaping access to and control over resources. Why are women leaders still marginalised from power ? What will it take to change this ? Women and Leadership is about leadership in many context : women resisting exploitation in the workplace ; women heading households ; women leading in the international policy forum. It offers insights for development policy makers and practitioners aiming to promote gender equality and to support women would-be leaders, and argues that the institutions that rule our societies themselves need to be transformed in order to promote gender equality."
Holding the World Together by Nwando Achebe,Claire Robertson Pdf
Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume considers such topics as the representation of African women, their role in national liberation movements, their experiences of religious fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), their incorporation into the world economy, changing family and marriage systems, impacts of the world economy on their lives and livelihoods, and the unique challenges they face in the areas of health and disease. Contributors: Nwando Achebe, Ousseina Alidou, Signe Arnfred, Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois, Henryatta Ballah, Teresa Barnes, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Emily Burril, Abena P. A. Busia, Gracia Clark, Alicia Decker, Karen Flint, December Green, Cajetan Iheka, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth M. Perego, Claire Robertson, Kathleen Sheldon, Aili Mari Tripp, Cassandra Veney
3 Leadership Journeys, One Story by Elizabeth Lwanga,Letty Chiwara,Regina Amadi-Njoku Pdf
This book examines the impact of culture and gender on African women leadership and, by implication, on the gender equality struggles African women continue to face. The rich and lived experiences of 15 prominent and phenomenal African Women Leaders (AWLs) shed light on their culture and gender-driven challenges. The book is enriched by various stakeholders and actors who have a vested interest in gender equality efforts. Their contributions uncover positive aspects of African culture that promote gender equality, women's leadership, and their partnership with men in the hybrid cultural environment, in Africa and beyond. This book is a great resource for learning and training, for strengthening young women's leadership in Africa, and for promoting sustainable gender-responsive development! "This book houses the long-awaited real-life stories of African women in senior leadership positions at the international policy level. It explores the meaning of "African-ness" in an evolving feminist paradigm about leadership and development. In this book, practice meets theory and thereby challenges our age-old thought processes about culture and gender equality and how these affect progress on the African continent. A must-read for current and emerging leaders who want to start a new way of thinking and leading." --Thelma Awori, Honorary Consul General, Republic of Liberia to the Republic of Uganda and Former Assistant Secretary General, UN/UNDP "It is with great delight that I endorse and commend Culture, Gender and African Women Leadership as a must-read book not only for African males and females but for men and women in all countries of the world. The book is long overdue and has been the missing link to comprehensive Gender Development that has eluded the world for several decades. Some of the African traditional leadership roles, systems, and practices will no doubt excite and encourage today's young African women to take up the mantles of leadership that have been eroded and lost in the past half century. The 3 authors of the book are highly commended for this initiative, which will arouse African men and women to arise, take responsibility, and promote the leadership of African women at local, national, and international levels." --Dr. Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, former Queen Mother (Mukwae Ngula) to the Barotse King; 3-time member of the Zambian Parliament; Zambian Ambassador to USA, Belgium, and the European Union; 2001 candidate for Zambian president "The authors call to attention the importance of culture in development and the fact that, sadly, culture has been either ignored or, in some cases, abandoned through influences such as colonialism and Western patriarchal culture. Yet, they point out, 'Culture drives gender and gender directs leadership'; and, therefore, the dilemma for African leadership. They bring to the fore this missing link in the efforts that have been made towards the equality of men and women, which inevitably has negatively affected the overall development of Africa. The very interesting stories and shared experiences of African women leaders from different walks of life confirm the critical role culture has played in their leadership journeys. The authors, in recognizing the discomfort and resistance that the prevailing 'gender equality' concept still causes for some, and in emphasizing the important role of men in the pursuit of gender equality, are proposing a more all-embracing gender paradigm, one that calls for a new form of gender partnership between men and women. This book, which aims to provide guidance and an easier path to leadership for young women, is a must-read for men and women of all generations who care about the direction of development of our African countries and peoples." --Professor Amos Sawyer; former interim President of Liberia