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Factors and Challenges Influencing Women Leadership in Management: A Systematic Review

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Leadership and management have always been common among men, yet women are stepping and succeeding into these roles too. However, with any new change that is projected to a system, challenges arise to reach adaptation or even acceptance of the change. This paper aims in pointing out the challenges and difficulties faced by women in their leadership and management roles. Six factors were studied which are competence, perception, stereotyping, harassment, organizational culture, and gender inequality on the performance and participation of a person, and thus how they impact gender discrimination. The results have presented a set of impressive challenges faced by women in their leadership roles such as gender and sex-based discrimination, stereotyping, harassment, gender inequality and perceived incompetence. This paper articulates the importance of paying attention to the factors affecting women in leadership and management in order to empower them and decrease gender discrimination in the workspace.

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  1. University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

    Khadija Alameeri

  2. Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

    Muhammad Alshurideh

  3. Marketing Department, School of Business, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

    Muhammad Alshurideh

  4. Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Marketing, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan

    Barween Al Kurdi

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  2. Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan

    Barween Hikmat Al Kurdi

  3. Management Information Systems Department, School of Business, University of Jordan, Aqaba, Jordan

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Alameeri, K., Alshurideh, M., Al Kurdi, B. (2023). Factors and Challenges Influencing Women Leadership in Management: A Systematic Review. In: Alshurideh, M., Al Kurdi , B.H., Masa’deh, R., Alzoubi , H.M., Salloum, S. (eds) The Effect of Information Technology on Business and Marketing Intelligence Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1056. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12382-5_82

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