helen oumer march 21, 2012. professor of business administration - harvard business school...
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Women and Leadership
Helen Oumer
March 21, 2012
Authors of Article
• Professor of Business Administration - Harvard Business School• Investigation – effectively management of race and gender relations• Research – organizational change, group dynamics, conflict, power, and social
identity. • Teaching – Harvard's Executive Education programs, the IWF Leadership
Foundation Fellow Program, and the Women's Leadership Forum.• Publications – numerous articles in books and journals • Consultant • Recent work –
Men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms The effects of racial diversity on performance in retail banking Senior women's experiences of power and authority in professional service firms
• Ph.D. – Organizational Behavior from Yale University• Doctoral coursework – Social Psychology: University of Texas at Austin• Bachelors degree – Smith College• Member of the Academy of Management and an Associate Editor
of Administrative Science
Dr. Robin J. Ely
Authors of Article
• Director – Stanford Center on the Legal Profession• Founding President – International Association of Legal Ethics• Focus - Legal Ethics and Gender, Law, and Public Policy• Publications - Over 20 books: The Beauty Bias, Women and Leadership, & Moral
Leadership; columnist for The National Law Journal; and published editorials in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Slate Newspapers.
• Former president of the Association of American Law Schools, Former Chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession, Founder and Former Director of Stanford’s Center on Ethics, and Former Director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford
• Awards - American Bar Association’s Michael Franck award, the American Bar Foundation’s W. M. Keck Foundation Award, the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award, and the White House’s Champion of Change award
• BA, Yale University, 1974• JD, Yale Law School, 1977
Dr. Deborah L. Rhode
The Iron Ladies Breaking into the Male-Supremacy Cage
• 33% MBA vs. 2 % Fortune 500 CEO• 40% Law School vs. < 20% Higher Positions• > 50% Voters vs. 16% Congressional Seats• http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/Current-Women-Leader
s.htm
Leadership Myth & Women
Authori-tative
Assertive
Dominant
Cultural prejudice She Can’t – wo/men co-workers You Can’t – males in charge
• 39% White & 44% colored vs. 2% WM passed over
I Can’t – Cultural/Societal/Religious Directly
• She is a B ch Indirectly
• Lack of Flexibility/Accommodation• Benevolent Sexism• Hostile Sexism
Structural Barriers
Access to Information Professional
Networking Mentoring The “Boys Clubs” The Glass Ceiling
She Has To Choose Time and Space Office in Laptop/Smart-phone
• Voluntary Professional Sacrifice 4 in 10 women 1 in 10 men
Attitudinal Barriers Assertive vs. Abrasive Charismatic vs. Seductive Self-Confident vs. Pushy Firm vs. Stubborn Aggressive vs. Shrew Leadership Qualities:
Cooperation, Collaboration, & Interpersonal Skills• “Damned If YOU Do, Doomed If You Don’t”
Other Issues Challenges of Nature
• Identity Performance vs. Learning
Goals• Demonstrate vs. Develop
She prefers to learn Prevention vs. Promotion
Strgy.• She is prevention
Motivation• Egosystem vs. ecosystem
Me vs. We
The Total Cost Individual Problems
• Frustration• Withdrawal
Economic Problems• Waste of Human Resource• Loss of Investment on Education
Organizational Problems• Direct and Indirect Effects on Performance• Loss of Opportunity of Great Leaders
Social Problems• Defeat of Equal Opportunity• Discrimination and Injustice
Thank You!