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Leadership in Action: What Women Want: Comparing Leadership Challenges in Europe and the US
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Leadership in Action: What Women Want: Comparing Leadership Challenges in Europe and the US

by Patricia Ohlott, Aparna Bhandary, Joan Tavares
August 2003
6 pages
23m
English
Center for Creative Leadership
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As we have seen, the leadership challenges and developmental needs cited by Western European and U.S. women managers were quite similar and were ranked in roughly the same order of priority. There were differences, but the two groups reported the same top four challenges. It's also important to note that many of the challenges were inextricably inter-twined—for example, work-life balance and workload issues often arose during times of organizational turbulence, and gender issues were often tied in with organizational politics, self-management, and becoming accepted as a leader.

For some respondents, the “glass ceiling” still seemed firmly in place.

Now that women have become and are increasingly becoming a major contingent among ...

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