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Women: Management and Leadership

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The chapter begins by examining some of the theories surrounding and sculpting what is meant by management and leadership, and interrogates some of the contradictory and multilayered discourses which relate to the issue of women as managers and leaders. It considers arguments such as those advanced by Collard (Does size matter? In J. Collard & C. Reynolds (Eds.), Leadership and culture in education: Male and female perspectives. Berkshire: Open University Press, 2005:35), who points out that ‘leadership and organizational culture are multifaceted and that situational factors impact upon the ways that women, and men, lead and manage’.

Fundamental to this discussion is the standpoint that, over time, authority has, in the main, been associated with hegemonic masculinity and women who manage are insiders with institutional power and authority but who stand outside the male culture [and] are frequently positioned in highly contradictory ways (Blackmore, Troubling women. Feminism, leadership and educational change. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999:107).

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Thompson, B. (2017). Women: Management and Leadership. In: Gender, Management and Leadership in Initial Teacher Education. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49051-3_2

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