Redefining Women’s Leadership for the 21st Century

This week, Forbes published a potent article by celebrated feminist blogger and BCRW’s own Student Research Assistant Julie Zeilinger, examining the complex factors deterring talented young women from embracing their leadership potential. In the guest post, Zeilinger identifies the harsh scrutiny that comes with societal gender double-standards and the crushing psychological pressure to achieve perfection in the personal and public spheres as major factors in why young American women shy away from taking charge:

So, why don’t women want to lead? The answer is in the pages of the magazines we read and now even in the news coverage of the political debates we watch, which promote cultural standards that destroy women’s confidence and prescribe unattainable standards in all areas of our lives. In order for women to lead – for women to want to lead, to feel that we are capable of leading – we we need to redefine leadership altogether. We need to define leadership not as perfection but as intelligence, honesty and doing the right thing. It is also essential that we question and change a society that sets the standard for achievement impossibly high for women and upsettingly low for men.

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