Unveiling Womens Leadership

Unveiling Women's Leadership provides a penetrating insight into the world of Indian woman leaders. The book unravels the unique challenges facing the Indian woman leader who has to juggle several challenges including patriarchy, the caste system, harassment, and society's expectation that she ought to fit snugly into stereotypical roles.

Unveiling Women's Leadership: Identity and Meaning of Leadership provides academics and policy makers some understanding on how Indian women, located within various social situations and contexts, evolve as leaders. It contributes to the theory of global leadership and to its interplay with gender in non-western context . Scholars and policy makers may find this a helpful resource for linking leadership to other domains including gender roles, identities, and social and patriarchal norms. (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Vol. 36 (3), April, 2017)

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Professor Payal Kumar embodies a rare combination of expertise as both a real-time leader in the corporate sector, and as a scholar in the realm of leadership. She has worked as Registrar and Professor at a university in north India, and has also published widely on topics including mentoring, gender and diversity and leadership. She is involved as an Editorial Board member for some leading journals and is an Advisory Board member for multinational companies and consultancy firms based in India, England and USA.

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THEME ONE: SELF IDENTITY, NATURE AND NATURE

1. Women and Leadership: A Neuro-Social Point of View
   SOCIAL CONDITIONING (NOT THE BRAIN!) LIMITS PROGRESS
   Dr Bruce Hiebert
2. Political Participation and Women's Leadership
   SUBORDINATION AS AN IMPETUS FOR CHANGE?
   Sriparna Ganguly Chaudhuri
3. Confronting Paradox: Exploring Mentoring Relationships as a Catalyst for Understanding the Strength and Resilience of Professional Indian Women
   JUGGLING MODERNITY WITH THE TRADITIONAL
   Stacy Blake-Beard, Ph.D.
4. Women in Joint Liability Groups: Do They Take Risks or Innovate?
   NO RISK, NO GAIN
   Ajeesh Sebastian
   THEME TWO: THE COST OF LEADERSHIP ON THE SELF
5. I picked up a fight, and became a leader!
   Fighting for change takes its toll
   Rina Mukherji
6. Is Sexual Harassment at the Workplace Curtailing Women's Growth?
   LAW HAS NO TEETH, UNLESS IT IS IMPLEMENTED
   Poornima Hatti and Shruti Vidyasagar
7. Gender Discrimination in the Boardroom
   ONE STEP AHEAD, TWO STEPS BEHIND
   Neha Verma
   THEME THREE: INTERPLAY BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND AGENCY
8. Women Heralding Change
   The Feminine Way of Journalism
   Ela R Bhatt
9. Attaining Leadership through Transformational Interventions
   REDEFINING LEADERSHIP
   Seema Baquer and Monica Ramesh
10. Searching for the elusive glass ceiling in higher education
    LEADERSHIP ROLES IN INDIA'S LAW SCHOOLS
    Dr V S Elizabeth
11. Mobile Applications: A Game Changer for Rural Women Entrepreneurs?
    MOBILES, NOT IT, ARE THE KEY TO CHANGE
    Nalini Srinivasan
12. Looking ahead: the feminisation of leadership
    COLLECTIVE SOCIETY: BOON OR BANE?
    Dr Neha Chatwani
13. A Study of women as Panchayat leaders in Bihar
    INTERPLAY BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND AGENCY
    Smita Agarwal
14. How difficult is it to treat woman lawyers equally in an Indian law firm?
    The power of perception can be contained
    Harish Narasappa
15. A struggle for equality in the private realm of Family Law
    THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL
    Dr Sarasu Esther Thomas