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Women Leaders in Indonesia: Current Picture and Strategies for Empowerment

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In this chapter, we illustrate the complicated disparity of gender in Indonesia, where paternalistic and traditional culture coexist with the attainment of the sixth highest proportion of women senior managers in the world. We used historical and cultural analysis to address the factors that contribute to this complexity. In this traditional culture, family is the basis for identity development and is the basis for women’s agency in Indonesia. The family, especially fathers, is important in taking change agent roles to stimulate positive identity for women as leaders. We also explore organizational-level strategies involving the formulation of organizational identity as diverse organizations, as well as policies and practices to propel women to grow as leaders.

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  1. Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia

    Corina D. Riantoputra & Eka Gatari

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  1. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

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  2. Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Rajashi Ghosh

  3. The University of Texas-Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USA

    Judy Y. Sun

  4. McLean Global Consulting, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

    Gary N. McLean

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Riantoputra, C.D., Gatari, E. (2017). Women Leaders in Indonesia: Current Picture and Strategies for Empowerment. In: Cho, Y., Ghosh, R., Sun, J., McLean, G. (eds) Current Perspectives on Asian Women in Leadership. Current Perspectives on Asian Women in Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54996-5_4

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