Leading ladies: discursive constructions of women leaders in the UK media

Women continue to be economically disadvantaged and under-represented in positions of power and leadership. A discursive disjunction between cultural and media representations of women and leadership has been implicated in these continuing inequalities. We address this issue through an analysis of the ways in which prominent women leaders were portrayed in a UK radio series, BBC Radio 4’s “Profile” broadcast between July 2011 and July 2013. Verbatim transcripts of 12 broadcasts featuring women were analysed within a critical feminist framework, to explore the ways in which these women leaders were discursively constructed. Our analysis explicates three constructions of “women leaders”: as “traditionally” feminine; as having to balance “masculine” and “feminine” attributes; and as exceptional women who may nevertheless fail. We conclude that the impact of equality legislation continues to be limited while androcentric norms prevail and that we therefore need more gynocentric ways of imagining women leaders

Selected Dimensions of Self-concept and Educational Aspirations of Married Women College Graduates, 1970

This study investigated the factors related to the educational aspirations of college-educated women who were themselves, or who were married to, Harvard graduate students. In January, 1968, a questionnaire was mailed to 2,393 Harvard graduate students' wives and 355 married women enrolled as graduate students at Harvard University. The return rates were 65% for the wives of graduate students, and 79% for the married women graduate students. The 52-page Life Plans Questionnaire assessed educational aspiration; self-esteem; female role ideology; generalized conception of academic ability; self-assessment of graduate school potential; recalled perceptions of adolescent family relations; high school teachers', high school peers', college instructors', and college peers' evaluations of responden'ts academic ability; competence and satisfaction in three major role areas: wife, housekeeper, and mother; orientation to mode of achievement satisfaction; socioeconomic status and occupation; maternal employment; adolescent loneliness; stability of self-concept; and college experience. The Murray Research Archive holds all original record paper data, and numeric file data from the study

Conseillers confessionnels et Conseillers professionnels autour de la psychologie pastorale

Lipman-Blumen Jean, Eister Allan W. Conseillers confessionnels et Conseillers professionnels autour de la psychologie pastorale. In: Archives de sociologie des religions, n°7, 1959. pp. 131-143

Challenging Our Assumptions About Male and Female Preferences for Competition

The current article challenges the cultural stereotypes surrounding the behaviors men and women use to accomplish their goals, with a specific emphasis on competitive behavior. Using the Connective Leadership Model, we offer an in‐depth look at both how men and women differ in competitive leadership behaviors both across generations and time. The paper analyzed data gathered from the 1980‐2015, utilizing the L‐BL Achieving Styles Inventory (ASI). Examining over 10,000 responses from U.S. upper‐ and middle‐level managers and first‐line supervisors, across industries, the results provide valuable insights into recent gender patterns. Our findings suggest that men appear to be responding to the social expansion of their behavioral choices by placing competitive behavior increasingly lower than other options and lower than they have in the past. Yet, men still engage in more competitive behavior than women. Curiously, Millennials of both sexes reported a counter‐intuitive uptick in competitive behavior. The current study offers important insights not only for leadership scholars, but for present and future leaders seeking to understand the influence of gender on the changing face of competitive leadership behavior