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When it comes to conventional views about leadership styles disadvantaging women and advantaging men, men are expected to lead in an aggressive way, so when people think about leadership, they think about aggressiveness and women are not suppose to be aggressive, they are suppose to be nurturing. Also, leadership requires people to relate effectively with opposing counsel and clients and this can be a tough area for women because a majority of the time, opposing counsel and clients and male and therefore the women are looked down upon because men do not want to be controlled by women; they do not want a woman as their leader. Leaders are expected to have the masculinity about them because leaders need to me aggressive, decisive, hierarchical, autonomous, directive and cool.

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From the book, English states, “And research suggests that managers draw their style more from the gender composition of those they lead; that is, they tend to act masculine and task-oriented in male-dominated environments and supportive and people-oriented in female-dominated environments.” “In actuality, most of the women I interviewed said that at some point they had made some adjustment in their ordinary manner or personality because of gender expectations. They tended to accept the dictum that women can’t be too aggressive or too passive, and created detailed methods for walking that fine line. These women assumed that they can’t just be themselves, and that they must sculpt an acceptable work persona that doesn’t offend entrenched norms.” (117) To have to act like a male in order to feel like you deserve leadership is ridiculous. In certain places women are picked to become leaders because they possess different qualities then all the other men that have led before her and they should take that into consideration. Leadership is not a male quality, it is a quality everyone can have.

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These expectations relate to stereotypes because people think leadership is a male thing. People stereotype leaders as aggressive males. Women are not seen to have the qualities of a leader simply because the qualities consist of being a male. In the first video that say the we see women in so many prominent places, that we miss the places that they are missing and we forget to even look in certain places because the stereotypes that have been put on them.

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Positive outcomes of female leadership would be a different outlook on things. Whenever people discuss women and leadership, they discuss the glass ceiling. In the second video, the woman says that women have not broken the glass ceiling, it has been cracked, but not broken and the progress on breaking it has stalled. Women have pushed themselves to get places and they have taken the extra step to get all the extra qualifications under their belts like experience and higher education; they have done their share to prepare, but they are not getting anything out of it. Businesses are not giving them the opportunity to use it, so they say in the second video that there is all this talent that is not being used. Women bring a different experience and different skills to management. Women have a unique way of thinking to them that men just do not have. They also bring a different agenda to the table. In the second video they discuss that women bring different issues to the table, they bring up minimum wage and early childhood development; they bring new talent to the table. Women also bring different creativity to the table.

Negative qualities that females bring to the table would be typical female behaviors that bring problems to any situations such as moodiness and things like that. Some females are very stubborn and set on their own ways, but males are like that as well. Males can bring the same negative qualities to the table as well, but that is why, in the second video, they makes it a point to say that shared leadership between female and males is a very good thing. You do not need just one or the other, you can have both, but in order for that to happen, we need more females.

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I prefer shared leadership between males and females because I believe that both genders bring very different and unique things to the table. Women have certain qualities to them than men do and when you bring the two together, I think it brings out the best in both.