What Happens When Women Take the Lead

As comprehensive as the organization of this book seems, the editors suggest that yet another edition could be written. Why not make ‘Women and Leadership’ a multi-volume enterprise? I have some suggestions.

FDR Presidential Library & Museum via Wikimedia Commons
Eleanor Roosevelt holding a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Lake Success, New York, November 1949. FDR Presidential Library & Museum via Wikimedia Commons

‘Women and Leadership: Navigating Change from Ancient Times to the Present’
Edited by Karen Christensen, George Gothals, Crystal Hoyt
Berkshire Publishing Group, 370 pages

“It is the best of times. It is the worst of times.” What the editors of “Women and Leadership” have in mind is “a greater interest in shared and distributed forms of leadership” and the “global rise in autocratic leadership,” a reassertion of “‘strongman style’ masculinities.”

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