Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap
Published on 7. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
386 pages
978-1-68123-994-1 (ISBN)
Description
Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap is the sixth volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series. This cross-disciplinary series, from the International Leadership Association, enhances leadership knowledge and improves leadership development of women around the world. The purpose of this volume is to highlight connections between the fields of communication and leadership to help address the problem of underrepresentation of women in leadership. Readers will profit from the accessible writing style as they encounter cutting-edge scholarship on gender and leadership. Chapters of note cover microaggressions, authentic leadership, courageous leadership, inclusive leadership, implicit bias, career barriers and levers, impression management, and the visual rhetoric of famous women leaders.
Because women in leadership positions occupy a contested landscape, one goal of this collection is to clarify the contradictory communication dynamics that occur in everyday interactions, in national and international contexts, and when leadership is digital. Another goal is to illuminate the complexities of leadership identity, intersectionality, and perceptions that become obstacles on the path to leadership.
The renowned thinkers and scholars in this volume hail from both Leadership and Communication disciplines. The book begins with Sally Helgesen and Brenda J. Allen. Helgesen, co-author of The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work, discusses the two-fold challenge women face as they struggle to articulate their visions. Her chapter offers six practices women can use to relieve this struggle. Allen, author of the groundbreaking book, Difference Matters: Communicating Social Identity, discusses the implications of how inclusive leadership matters to women and what it means to think about women as people who embody both dominant and non-dominant social identity categories. She then offers practical communication strategies and an intersectional ethic to the six signature traits of highly inclusive leaders.
Each chapter includes practical solutions from a communication and leadership perspective that all readers can employ to advance the work of equality. Some solutions will be of use in organizational contexts, such as leadership development and training initiatives, or tools to change organizational culture. Some solutions will be of use to individuals, such as how to identify and respond productively to micro-aggressions or how to be cautious rather than optimistic about practicing authentic leadership. The writing in this volume also reflects a range of styles, from in-depth scholarship that produces new knowledge to shorter forums that feature interesting ideas worth considering.
Because women in leadership positions occupy a contested landscape, one goal of this collection is to clarify the contradictory communication dynamics that occur in everyday interactions, in national and international contexts, and when leadership is digital. Another goal is to illuminate the complexities of leadership identity, intersectionality, and perceptions that become obstacles on the path to leadership.
The renowned thinkers and scholars in this volume hail from both Leadership and Communication disciplines. The book begins with Sally Helgesen and Brenda J. Allen. Helgesen, co-author of The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work, discusses the two-fold challenge women face as they struggle to articulate their visions. Her chapter offers six practices women can use to relieve this struggle. Allen, author of the groundbreaking book, Difference Matters: Communicating Social Identity, discusses the implications of how inclusive leadership matters to women and what it means to think about women as people who embody both dominant and non-dominant social identity categories. She then offers practical communication strategies and an intersectional ethic to the six signature traits of highly inclusive leaders.
Each chapter includes practical solutions from a communication and leadership perspective that all readers can employ to advance the work of equality. Some solutions will be of use in organizational contexts, such as leadership development and training initiatives, or tools to change organizational culture. Some solutions will be of use to individuals, such as how to identify and respond productively to micro-aggressions or how to be cautious rather than optimistic about practicing authentic leadership. The writing in this volume also reflects a range of styles, from in-depth scholarship that produces new knowledge to shorter forums that feature interesting ideas worth considering.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Charlotte
United States
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
585 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68123-994-1 (9781681239941)
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Persons
Carolyn M. Cunningham, Gonzaga University.
Heather M. Crandall, Gonzaga University.
Alexa M. Dare, University of Portland.
Heather M. Crandall, Gonzaga University.
Alexa M. Dare, University of Portland.
Content
Foreword; Lisa Brown.
Introduction; Carolyn M. Cunningham, Heather M. Crandall, and Alexa M. Dare.
Part I. Foundations: Communication In Practice.
Chapter 1. Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap; Sally Helgesen.
Chapter 2. Women as Inclusive Leaders: Intersectionality Matters; Brenda J. Allen.
Part II. On The Ground: Everyday Communication.
Chapter 3. Narrowing the Leadership Gap: Communication Strategies to Combat Microaggressions; Kelly Lynch McKenzie and Tammy J. Halstead.
Chapter 4. Confronting Implicit and Benevolent Bias in Teams: Concepts and Communication Strategies for Women in Leadership; Steve Mortenson.
Chapter 5. Talking Power: Women's Experiences of Workplace Conversations; Anne Murphy.
Chapter 6. Embracing and Contesting Gender Roles: Communication Strategies of Women in Engineering Leadership Roles; Sarah E. Riforgiate and Emily M. Ruder.
Chapter 7. Gender, Authentic Leadership, and Communication; E. Anne Christo-Baker and Daniel Stuart Wilbur.
Part III. Around The Globe: Culture, Communication, And Leadership.
Chapter 8. The Efficacy of Strategies to Elevate Gender Equality in Leadership: Assessing the Netherlands' Charter Talent to the Top Initiative; Wilma Henderikse, Annemieke van Beek, and Babette Pouwels.
Chapter 9. The Leaky Leadership Pipeline in France: A Study of Career Levers and Barriers to Fostering Women's Leadership Development; Christine Naschberger, Camilla Quental, and Celine Legrand.
Chapter 10. Emergent Yet Constrained: Interrogating the Relationship Between Leadership, Gender, and Courage in Organizing for Peace; Stacey L. Connaughton and Jasmine R. Linabary.
Chapter 11. Transcending Self: An African Girl's Journey; Rosemary M. Muriungi.
Part IV. Intersections And Conundrums.
Chapter 12. Intersectionality and Feminist Praxis: An Integrative Analysis of Diversity and Discourse in Women's Leadership; Diane A. Forbes.
Chapter 13. She Just Doesn't Seem Like a Leader: African American Women College Presidents and Rhetorical Leadership; Dorine L. Lawrence-Hughes.
Chapter 14. I Am Versus I Will Be a Great Leader: Using Critical Race Feminism to Explore Gender Differences Among College Students of Color; Annemarie Vaccaro and Melissa J. Camba-Kelsay.
Chapter 15. Mexican American Women Leaders: Filling a Gap in the Study of Gender, Communication, and Leadership; Yolanda Chavez Leyva and Patricia Dennis Witherspoon.
Part V. In The Ether: Digital Leadership.
Chapter 16. Theorizing and Researching Gender and Digital Leadership in Tech Cities; Mariann Hardey.
Chapter 17. The Links of LinkedIn: Impression Management on Professional Social Media; Evelyn H. Thrasher.
Chapter 18. Leader or Lady?: The Visual Rhetoric of Hillary Clinton's Twitter Images; Newly Paul and Gregory Perreault.
Chapter 19. Her Gospel Truth: Bloggers Rewriting Grand Narratives of Women of Faith in Church Leadership; Karen Sorensen-Lang.
About the Editors.
About the Contributors.
Introduction; Carolyn M. Cunningham, Heather M. Crandall, and Alexa M. Dare.
Part I. Foundations: Communication In Practice.
Chapter 1. Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap; Sally Helgesen.
Chapter 2. Women as Inclusive Leaders: Intersectionality Matters; Brenda J. Allen.
Part II. On The Ground: Everyday Communication.
Chapter 3. Narrowing the Leadership Gap: Communication Strategies to Combat Microaggressions; Kelly Lynch McKenzie and Tammy J. Halstead.
Chapter 4. Confronting Implicit and Benevolent Bias in Teams: Concepts and Communication Strategies for Women in Leadership; Steve Mortenson.
Chapter 5. Talking Power: Women's Experiences of Workplace Conversations; Anne Murphy.
Chapter 6. Embracing and Contesting Gender Roles: Communication Strategies of Women in Engineering Leadership Roles; Sarah E. Riforgiate and Emily M. Ruder.
Chapter 7. Gender, Authentic Leadership, and Communication; E. Anne Christo-Baker and Daniel Stuart Wilbur.
Part III. Around The Globe: Culture, Communication, And Leadership.
Chapter 8. The Efficacy of Strategies to Elevate Gender Equality in Leadership: Assessing the Netherlands' Charter Talent to the Top Initiative; Wilma Henderikse, Annemieke van Beek, and Babette Pouwels.
Chapter 9. The Leaky Leadership Pipeline in France: A Study of Career Levers and Barriers to Fostering Women's Leadership Development; Christine Naschberger, Camilla Quental, and Celine Legrand.
Chapter 10. Emergent Yet Constrained: Interrogating the Relationship Between Leadership, Gender, and Courage in Organizing for Peace; Stacey L. Connaughton and Jasmine R. Linabary.
Chapter 11. Transcending Self: An African Girl's Journey; Rosemary M. Muriungi.
Part IV. Intersections And Conundrums.
Chapter 12. Intersectionality and Feminist Praxis: An Integrative Analysis of Diversity and Discourse in Women's Leadership; Diane A. Forbes.
Chapter 13. She Just Doesn't Seem Like a Leader: African American Women College Presidents and Rhetorical Leadership; Dorine L. Lawrence-Hughes.
Chapter 14. I Am Versus I Will Be a Great Leader: Using Critical Race Feminism to Explore Gender Differences Among College Students of Color; Annemarie Vaccaro and Melissa J. Camba-Kelsay.
Chapter 15. Mexican American Women Leaders: Filling a Gap in the Study of Gender, Communication, and Leadership; Yolanda Chavez Leyva and Patricia Dennis Witherspoon.
Part V. In The Ether: Digital Leadership.
Chapter 16. Theorizing and Researching Gender and Digital Leadership in Tech Cities; Mariann Hardey.
Chapter 17. The Links of LinkedIn: Impression Management on Professional Social Media; Evelyn H. Thrasher.
Chapter 18. Leader or Lady?: The Visual Rhetoric of Hillary Clinton's Twitter Images; Newly Paul and Gregory Perreault.
Chapter 19. Her Gospel Truth: Bloggers Rewriting Grand Narratives of Women of Faith in Church Leadership; Karen Sorensen-Lang.
About the Editors.
About the Contributors.