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Women’s Challenges in Leadership

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Currently more women are involving themselves in leadership positions than before, both in academic and non-academic positions. In our fast-growing world, women encounter many daily leadership challenges in their work-place. Despite great achievements in their careers and professional lives, they still have enormous difficulties to be successful in their leading positions. This paper reviews a number of challenges and barriers that women have encountered in leading positions. For this research, books, academic papers (both review and original) and accredited sites have been searched to collect and draw the required information for the topic. This study aims to demonstrate problems facing women who are in a leading position by focusing on recent challenges.

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  1. Faculty of Educational Studies, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

    Mina Abbasiyannejad & Abu Daud Silong

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  1. International Science Association (ISCASS), Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Şefika Şule Erçetin

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Abbasiyannejad, M., Silong, A.D. (2016). Women’s Challenges in Leadership. In: Erçetin, Ş. (eds) Women Leaders in Chaotic Environments. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44758-2_18

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