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This work within The SAGE Reference Series on Leadership provides undergraduate students with an authoritative reference resource on leadership issues specific to women and gender. Although covering historical and contemporary barriers to women’s leadership and issues of gender bias and discrimination, this two-volume set focuses as well on positive aspects and opportunities for leadership in various domains and is centered on the 101 most important topics, issues, questions, and debates specific to women and gender. Entries provide students with more detailed information and depth of discussion than typically found in an encyclopedia entry, but lack the jargon, detail, and density of a journal article.Key FeaturesProvides a list of further readings and references after each entry, as well as a detailed index and an online version of the work to maximize accessibility for today's student audience.
Reader's Guide
- Overview: Feminist Theories of Leadership
- The Development of Children's Perceptions of Leadership
- The Consequences of Gender for Women's Political Leadership
- Intersectionalities of Race and Gender and Leadership
- Women's Leadership Within Their Communities
- Women's Political Ambition
Part I. Feminist Theories of Leadership
- Overview: History of Women's Public Leadership
- Women's Leadership and Third-Wave Feminism
- Women as Leaders in Congress
- Women as Leaders in Executive Service
- Women Judges as Leaders
- Women as Leaders in the Military
- Women in State Legislatures
- Women in Local Government
- Spotlight: Shirley Franklin
- Viewing Women's Political Leadership Through a Rural Electoral Lens: Canada as a Case Study
- Women's Organizations as Leaders in Finding and Supporting Female Candidates
- Roadblocks on the Path to Political Leadership: Women's Roles in Congressional Elections, Incumbency, and Parties
- The Mentor Gap: A Barrier to Women in Legislative Leadership
Part II. History of Women's Public Leadership
- Overview: History of Women Leaders in Social Movements
- Women as Leaders in the Progressive Movement
- Women Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement
- Spotlight: Anita Hill
- Women as Leaders in the Latina/o Movement
- Women's Leadership in the Environmental Movement
- Women's Leadership in Liberal PACs
- Women as Leaders in Conservative Women's Organizations
- Women as Leaders in Lesbian Organizations
- Women's Leadership in the Domestic Violence Movement
- Women's Leadership in the Fight Against Human Trafficking
- Women as Leaders to Achieve Equal Rights in the Workplace
- Women Leaders in the Peace/Antiwar Movements
Part III. Women's Leadership in Social Movements
- Overview: Women's Leadership in the Global Context
- Women's Leadership and the United Nations in the Global Women's Rights Movement
- Spotlight: Melanne Verveer
- Women as Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Government Ministers
- Women's Political Leadership in the European Union
- Women's Leadership in Africa
- Women's Leadership in Latin America
- Women's Leadership in the Middle East and North Africa
- Women's Leadership in the South Pacific
- Women's Leadership in Asia
- Women's Leadership in Japan and Taiwan
- Women's Leadership in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and Belarus
- Women's Leadership in Eurasia
Part IV. Women's Leadership in the Global Context
- Overview: Women Leaders in the Business and Profit Sector
- Women as Leaders in the Union Movement
- Women as Leaders in International Microfinance
- Women as Entrepreneurs and Business Owners
- Spotlight: Mary Kay Ash
- Women Lawyers as Leaders
- Women's Leadership in Corporate America
Part V. Women's Leadership in the Business and Profit Sector
- Overview: Women as Leaders in Religion and Religious Organizations
- Women as Leaders in Buddhism
- Women as Leaders in Catholicism
- Women as Leaders in Hinduism
- Women as Leaders in Islam
- Women as Leaders in Judaism
- Women as Leaders in Mormonism
- Women as Leaders in Pentecostal/Charismatic Religions
- Women as Leaders in Protestant Denominations
Part VI. Women's Leadership in Religion and Religious Organizations
- Overview: Women as Leaders in Academia
- Women as Leaders in Women's Colleges
- Women's Leadership in Education: University Presidents
- Women's Leadership in Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Women's Leadership in the Development of African American Studies
- Women's Leadership in the Development of Latina/o Studies
- Women's Leadership in the Development of American Indian Studies
- Women's Leadership in the Development of Women and Gender Studies
- Spotlight: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
- Women's Leadership in Biology
- Women's Leadership in Mathematics
- Women's Leadership in Anthropology
- Women's Leadership in Economics
- Women's Leadership in Political Science
- Women's Leadership in Sociology
- Women's Leadership in Engineering
Part VII. Women's Leadership in Academia
- Overview: Leadership in Women's Health
- Women's Leadership in the Development of Nursing
- Women's Leadership in the Development of Medicine
- Spotlight: Alvenia Fulton
- Women's Leadership in Psychology
- Women's Leadership in the Reproductive Rights Movement
- Women as Leaders in the Contraceptive Movement
- Spotlight: Margaret Sanger
Part VIII. Leadership in Women's Health
- Overview: Women in the Media
- Women as Leaders in Broadcast TV News and Print Journalism
- Women as Leaders in the Digital Age
- Women as Leaders in Television
- Women as Leaders in Public Relations
- Women as Leaders in Alternative Media
- Women as Leaders in Television News
- Spotlight: Barbara Walters
Part IX. Women's Leadership in the Media
- Overview: Women in Sports
- Women's Leadership in the Olympic Movement
- Women's Leadership in the Enactment and Enforcement of Title IX
- Women as Leaders in Intercollegiate Athletics
- Women as Leaders in Professional Sport
- Spotlight: Billie Jean King
- Women as Leaders in Sports Education
Part X. Women's Leadership in Sports
- Overview: Women in the Arts
- Women's Leadership in the Fine Arts
- Women's Leadership in the Performing Arts
- Women's Leadership in Western Music Since 1800
- Women Writers as Leaders
- Women's Leadership in Fashion Design
- Women's Leadership in Romance Fiction Scholarship
- Women's Leadership in Interior Design
Part XI. Women's Leadership in the Arts
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