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Women Learning Leadership

In: Women’s Leadership

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  • Valerie Stead
  • Carole Elliott

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This quote from May Blood, of her time working in a linen mill and as a union representative, exemplifies the focus of this chapter; how women learn leadership. In particular it indicates the significance of learning as being informal and emerging from the doing of leadership and we explore this in more detail later. The quote also points to the significance of gender, how she was often the only woman, and how women were not asking for enough. Through women leaders’ accounts Chapter 4’s analysis illustrated how gender is reproduced through social interaction and through organisational processes. This analysis demonstrated that women have to negotiate gendered processes in order to achieve and maintain leadership roles. Furthermore, it foregrounded that women leaders had limited learning opportunities from social networks to help them do this.

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  • Valerie Stead & Carole Elliott, 2009. "Women Learning Leadership," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Women’s Leadership, chapter 6, pages 134-161, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24673-7_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230246737_7
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