Gender Prejudices and Leadership Efficiency: Differences in Leadership styles and Striving For Equality

Introduction Many measures have been taken to improve the status of women, which is the implementation of such quotas, etc. There is still a gender disparity in the workplace. This prevents women from fully appreciating the rights stipulated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1976 High Commissioner for Human Rights). This inequality is manifested clearly in the highest position held by women; for example, in the United States, only 14.6% of the Fortune 500 is owned by women (Catalyst 2013).

This article focuses on gender issues in corporate management. The purpose of this paper is to judge the difference of style of leadership between men and women in leadership position. Empirical study of 594 administrators using the unique method of leadership behavior analysis developed by Ken Blanchard to achieve the purpose of this work; statistical analysis of the results using parametric and nonparametric tests, and It is presented in the form of a contingency table and other descriptive tools (eg corresponding map). The explanation of the selected method also includes the verification of fairness test of gender used. Analysis of the data obtained revealed that individual gender shows the same trend as a specific leadership style because women tend to use commissioning and subsequent coaching but men prefer guidance and subsequent support . In the conclusion of this thesis, the results obtained are discussed.

Gender: The difference in leadership style between men and women is one of the deepest aspects of leadership research. Regarding the gap between men and women and leadership, there are mainly two ways of thinking, one that shows a big difference and the other that there is no difference in the style of leadership preferred for men and women. It is innovative. This result shows that women use more conversion styles, whereas men use more trading styles. This conclusion is supported by other studies that women tend to use innovative leadership over men and men tend to use transactional leadership as their main style (Druskat 1994) (Rosener 1990 ).