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I’m studying and need help with a Social Science question to help me learn.

Read the posts of the other learners and post scholarly responses to two of your peers. Provide suggestions about how women leaders can approach the challenges they face. Include text concepts, relevant research, and professional or practical experiences to support your responses.

Student post down below:

The concept of leadership is related to agency traits (Chemers, 2001). In particular, Schein (1973) showed that individuals’ perceptions about a typical man and a typical leader had several similarities, but there were few perceived similarities between a typical woman and a typical leader. These results have been replicated in other countries (e.g., Schein & Mueller, 1992; Schein, Mueller, Lituchy, & Liu, 1996).

However, literature about transformational leadership has illustrated that women are more transformational than men, as the characteristics of a transformational leadership style are related to feminine gender characteristics (Eagly, Johannesen-Schmidt, & van Engen, 2003; Lopez-Zafra & Del Olmo, 1999). In addition, women typically score higher than men in general emotional intelligence (Extremera, Fernández-Berrocal, & Salovey, 2006; Mayer, Caruso, & Salovey, 1999; Van Rooy, Alonso, & Viswesvaran, 2005).

Transformational leaders present several nonverbal emotional cues that makes females more effective and charismatic leaders (Weiertier, 1997).

Supportive, intellectual stimulation, considerate, individual consideration, behaviors are also typical and are related to feminine gender roles. These behaviors may be advantageous for women (Porterfield & Kleiner, 2005).

Some of the key factors are:

Gaining the trust and confidence of followers.

Motivates followers to improve their performance. (leaders spread their emotions and understands followers emotions).

Leaders benefit from their followers emotional commitment.

I work for an organization that women dominated the majority of the leadership positions