Gender and leadership : A review

Pages: 716-720
Sakshi Seth and Avinash Kumar (Department of Applied Psychology, South Campus, University of Delhi, Delhi)

Gender has been a fascinating topic of research and discussion for all the streams from a long period of time. Gender differences in different attributes has been correlated be it interest, intelligence, aptitude or any other psychological attribute. There has been also, number of claims that these gender differences also exist in organizations when it come to higher positions like managers and leders. It is believed that males are more result oriented leaders and females are more relationship oriented, but still there is lot of discrepancies and confusion which prevent us from reaching to a particular conclusion. This paper tries to bring the things in light and review the work done in this area. In order to understand the relationship between gender and leadership style different research paper from Indian and Foreign authors were explored and the conclusion was taken out. The conclusion of the research paper has been done on the basis of the literature review available and the understanding author got through these papers.