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.

Women's Political Leadership: What's Wrong With the American State and How to Fix It

Women's Political Leadership: What's Wrong With the American State and How to Fix It

Women's political leadership: What's wrong with the American state and how to fix it

Academics and journalists establish that context gives meaning to information. As researchers have found, information provided in the context in which respondents view the information giver as an expert will promote an experience in which respondents believe the information they have received is interesting and well presented. This is true even when the information presented is calculated to be meaningless and noninformative. Researchers found, for example, that an ...

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