Leadership Essay - review of articles on women in leadership positions

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Due to December 9th 

Starting in Business World with success

Group work

Boullé Allison

Darcis Aurélie

Illouz Alexandre

Larfaoui Wissem

Valène Aline

(Les articles traités par les élèves sont suivant l’ordre alphabétique)

Intervenant : F. Krawczyk

Leadership and women

Usually, when we think about leadership, strong male personalities come to our mind. Since women have access to higher education, they aspire to better positions in society. Find their place in a system lead by men for centuries is not easy. Women have to face the judgment of men who are under their orders sometimes in sectors regarded as male ones (military, finances, politics). Women’ leadership is growing and their style in leading is more and more appreciated.

         We are a team of five students (three women, two men) lead by a woman and we want to develop this topic in our paper. As you can see, at a simple level, it is common to find a woman leadership situation nowadays. Thus, men being gallants, they left women the privilege, along this subject, to emphasize on a special aspect dear to us.

        Aurélie Darcis

The reason of this choice is link to a personal story that I really admire. My friend’s mother is one of the first women who received a position of high responsibilities in the banking system in 1970s. The first time I met her, I saw in front of me a dynamic and kind women, strong and empathic with her relatives. Her professional life story was really far from what she now appears to be, and that motivates me.

During her studies, she was regarded as an “original” by the other male schoolmates, always reminded her that she was not the welcoming one. All these criticisms built her leadership style; she developed personality traits opposed to those generally observed in women, such as the ability to quick decision making and strategic thinking. She is also very results-oriented and independent because she has something to prove not only to her, but also to the others.

I really admire theses women who break down prejudices, and claim that women’s leadership can exist and have to. One by one, they open doors in different area for next generation.

Allison Boullé

To me, this choice of subject is mostly because we are (except for one) women in this group. We are studying in an American business school, in a way to have jobs with responsibilities, power and a high position in a company. Not to received orders every day, and earned a little money. We want to be more than useful; we want to be the base in the hierarchy of our future company. It is also true that for me, when I think of “women & leadership”; I see myself in an important enterprise but also create my own project, by developing my ideas.

In our lives, we all have people who inspire us, and our goal is to succeed as those persons did.  Women are so much capable compare to men. Some markets are better for us (fashion, clothes, makeup…) because we know what females customers really want. But today, we are not only good at working for women in a feminine company. We are totally able to give orders to men, to manage financial or sports enterprises. We are more and more present everywhere, and that is why we have all this power and this sense of leadership.

Aline Valène

A study showed that the women using their powers and authority upon a large audience adopted some kind of male behavior to be more credible, especially in front of the presence of men. Today in all areas, especially in politics, women now hold important positions. When people read about leadership and women, they immediately think of Angela Merkel, Hilary Clinton or Michelle Bachelet. These women (even) have many men working under their direction.

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In the era we live in, it is not strange to see this kind of success. It makes me realize that it is not impossible to be a powerful woman.  Although inequalities still persist especially in terms of salaries. On the other hand, however we have seen more and more the importance of women’s role in the economic and political world. As for me, I come from Chile and Cyprus. Two countries whose mentalities are centered more on the man power which limits the woman rights and ability to be equally treated.

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