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Leading Women In Business:Diversity Perspective

Leading Women in Business:
Diversity Perspective


Keywords
Women at work, Glass ceiling, Gender issues, Women’s equality.
Abstract
This paper will look in depth at qualified women’s representation in the workplace according to gender diversity and business performance in the organisations. The first part of this journal is a preliminary part to entry the women’s role in business. The second part draws on overview the position of women employment within the firm and followed by some advantages of women leadership in business environment. The third section examines of the women barriers to pursue their higher career progression in the UK. Next, since the dynamic changes in business environment, gender diversity in the workplace need adjust accordingly. The paper concludes by arguing that diversity and equal opportunity can give a great contribution in organisation’s competitive advantage.

Introduction
The chosen title of this journal demonstrates the recent changes in thinking on diversity issues such as women’s equality, gender role, and women’s powers on the board of directors within the organisation. In most countries, women position on top management or even as a director in the firm is limited. On the other hand, Burke (2003) said that the benefit of female executives in an organisation could bring greater contribution to its strategies and ultimately, give a better outcome for the company’s performance. Some giant-sized companies have looked into a gender diverse workforce to leverage their cultural diversity for competitive advantage (Kochan et al., 2003)

In reality, however, women employees are still treated as a second class after men; even though the company’s official policy has been made for gender diversity. Various cases happened in some business organisations in the UK and USA highlighted that the rights of women were not as strong as men’s, especially in the board decision making.

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