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Unveiling Women’s Leadership

Identity and meaning of leadership in India

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  • © 2015

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  1. Payal Kumar
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  3. The Cost of Leadership on the Self

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. I Picked Up a Fight, and Became a Leader!

      • Rina Mukherji
      Pages 55-64

    3. Is Sexual Harassment at the Workplace Curtailing Women’s Growth?

      • Poornima Hatti, Shruti Vidyasagar
      Pages 65-74

    4. Gender Discrimination in the Boardroom

      • Neha Verma
      Pages 75-97

  4. Interplay between Structure and Agency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Women Heralding Change

      • Ela R. Bhatt
      Pages 101-104

    3. Attaining Leadership through Transformational Interventions

      • Seema Baquer, Monica Ramesh
      Pages 105-115

    4. Searching for the Elusive Glass Ceiling in Higher Education

      • V. S. Elizabeth
      Pages 116-125

    5. Mobile Applications: A Game Changer for Rural Women Entrepreneurs?

      • Nalini Srinivasan
      Pages 126-136

    6. Looking Ahead: The Feminization of Leadership

      • Neha Chatwani
      Pages 137-152

    7. A Study of Women as Panchayat Leaders in Bihar

      • Smita Agarwal
      Pages 153-172

    8. How Difficult Is It to Treat Woman Lawyers Equally in an Indian Law Firm?

      • Harish Narasappa
      Pages 173-180

    9. A Struggle for Equality in the Private Realm of Family Law

      • Sarasu Esther Thomas
      Pages 181-190

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 191-199
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About this book

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.

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“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)

"This book is one of its kind. By unravelling the meaning of self-identity for the Indian woman leader, it adds a refreshingly new dimension to scholarship on leadership, by drawing on a context-sensitive, indigenous perspective."

- Krishnan Sharma, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

About the authors

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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