The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies

19 Bringing intersectionality into critical leadership development and learning

Suzanne Gagnon, Tomke Augustin, and Larissa Kanhai

DOI: 10.4324/9781003363125-23

Introduction

Scholarship on leadership development (LD) has extended an understanding of how differences can and should be incorporated into learning programs, with a prominent focus on gender and in particular, the gender binary between male and female as pertains to leadership development participants. From the norm of masculinity as the long prevailing cultural ground of such programs, researchers have shown that programming encompassing women's experiences and women's learning requires alternative attention and care (e.g., Stead & Elliott, 2012; Ely, Ibarra & Kolb, 2011; Sugiyama ...