Obstacles for Women & Leadership

Women often face many obstacles to advancing and being successful in a leadership role. Many female leaders struggle to reconcile qualities people prefer in women with qualities people think leaders need to succeed. Women are often seen as too soft or too tough.

Family demands can be an obstacle for women in the workplace. Women are still the ones who most often interrupt their careers to handle work/family trade-offs. This results in a lack of time to engage in social networking which is essential to advancement.

Another barrier to a woman's success is the 'glass cliff'  According to an article titled, “Workplace discrimination: Welcome to the ‘glass cliff,’” by the Christian Science Monitor, “when a person has a high level job traditionally held by the opposite gender, they are judged more harshly for their mistakes.”

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