{"id":1191,"date":"2009-01-14T06:48:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T11:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2009-01-14T06:48:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T11:48:28","slug":"paradox-of-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"Paradox of Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pubs\/932\/men-or-women-whos-the-better-leader\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research survey<\/a> showed that Americans rank women higher than men in 5 out of 8 leadership qualities and equal to men in 2 of the remaining 3.  The only quality in which men outscored women is &#8220;decisiveness&#8221;.<br \/>\nYet women lag behind in being elected or appointed to leadership positions in government and business.<br \/>\nHow did the survey participants resolve this apparent paradox?<br \/>\nWell, much to my relief, the old saws about women being unable to balance work and family responsibilities or not having enough experience didn&#8217;t make it among the top explanations.<br \/>\nRather, the public cited &#8220;gender discrimination, resistance to change, and a self-serving &#8220;old boys club&#8221; as reasons for the relative scarcity of women at the top.&#8221;<br \/>\nAmen, amen and amen again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Pew Research survey showed that Americans rank women higher than men in 5 out of 8 leadership qualities and equal to men in 2 of the remaining 3. The only quality in which men outscored women is &#8220;decisiveness&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}