Leadership of women in education

What is Important about Female Leadership?


A good balance of female and male leadership is important because, in the workplace, 'we organise around what suits men and their competitive advantages, and they have no idea it’s masculine. They just think it’s normal.' (Financial Times)


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Leadership for women in education

What is Important about Female Leadership?

 A good balance of female and male leadership is important because, in the workplace, 'we organise around what suits men and their competitive advantages, and they have no idea it’s masculine. They just think it’s normal.' (Financial Times)

Leadership Articles and Papers

Articles and Papers

Women are still less likely to aspire to leadership in business (The Conversation, June 2022)

Will women leaders change the future of management? (Financial Times)

Empathy Is The Most Important Leadership Skill According To Research (Forbes, October 2021)

Why early conversations about women in school leadership matter (Innovate Journal, Dr Berni Moreno, p5, October 2021)

Leadership Learning Journeys: Supporting Young Women Leaders (Innovate Journal, p.14, Jaime R. Malic, October 2021)

Gender Equality in Education: How do we involve men in the conversation? (Innovate Journal, p.15, @missmayne, October 2021)

How can Governors support Women Leaders in Education? (Innovate Journal, p.20, Naureen Khalid, October 2021)

Why we can have it all: motherhood and leadership (Innovate Journal, p.21, Rachel Campbell, October 2021)

Coaching as a tool to empower (Innovate Journal, p.27, Patricia Alviano & Lara Koretsky, October 2021)

Women’s rights must be at the center of the global recovery (Ban-Ki Moon, Elpais, 29th June 2021) 

We Need To Rethink Strategic Leadership (Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21st January 2021)

Female leaders make a real difference. Covid may be the proof (The Guardian, Jane Dudman, 16th December 2020)

What We Can Learn From the Wonder Women of COVID-19 (belfercenter.org, Izzy Ernst & Grace Pringle, November 2020)

Leading the Fight Against the Pandemic: Does Gender ‘Really’ Matter? (Supriya Garikipati & Uma Kambhampati, SSRN, 3rd June 2020)

Women in power: it’s a matter of life and death (Lorenzo Fioramonti, Luca Coscieme and Katherine Trebeck, socialeurope.eu, 1st June 2020)

The Secrets of Successful Female Networkers (HBR, November 2019)

Power of the Pack: Women who Support Women are More Successful (Forbes, Shelley Zalis, May 6th 2019)

Women and the Vision Thing (Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru, Harvard Business Review, January 2009)

Leadership Videos

Videos

All the #WomenEd Leadership Videos

Former CEO of PepsiCo on Nurturing Talent in Turbulent Times (HBR, Indra Nooyi, 5th November 2021)

Being 10% Braver: Harnessing the potential of women in international education (Womened.org, 29th September 2021)

The Rigged Test of Leadership (Sophie Williams, TEDx, February 2021)

6 Essential Lesson for Women Leaders (TED, Julia Gillard & Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, November 2020)

Leadership Blogs

Blogs

All the #WomenEd Leadership Blogs

Women are still less likely to aspire to leadership in business (The Conversation, June 2022)

Will women leaders change the future of management? (Financial Times)

Empathy Is The Most Important Leadership Skill According To Research (Forbes, October 2021)

Why early conversations about women in school leadership matter (Innovate Journal, Dr Berni Moreno, p5, October 2021)

Leadership Learning Journeys: Supporting Young Women Leaders (Innovate Journal, p.14, Jaime R. Malic, October 2021)

Gender Equality in Education: How do we involve men in the conversation? (Innovate Journal, p.15, @missmayne, October 2021)

How can Governors support Women Leaders in Education? (Innovate Journal, p.20, Naureen Khalid, October 2021)

Why we can have it all: motherhood and leadership (Innovate Journal, p.21, Rachel Campbell, October 2021)

Coaching as a tool to empower (Innovate Journal, p.27, Patricia Alviano & Lara Koretsky, October 2021)

Women’s rights must be at the center of the global recovery (Ban-Ki Moon, Elpais, 29th June 2021) 

We Need To Rethink Strategic Leadership (Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21st January 2021)

Female leaders make a real difference. Covid may be the proof (The Guardian, Jane Dudman, 16th December 2020)

What We Can Learn From the Wonder Women of COVID-19 (belfercenter.org, Izzy Ernst & Grace Pringle, November 2020)

Leading the Fight Against the Pandemic: Does Gender ‘Really’ Matter? (Supriya Garikipati & Uma Kambhampati, SSRN, 3rd June 2020)

Women in power: it’s a matter of life and death (Lorenzo Fioramonti, Luca Coscieme and Katherine Trebeck, socialeurope.eu, 1st June 2020)

The Secrets of Successful Female Networkers (HBR, November 2019)

Power of the Pack: Women who Support Women are More Successful (Forbes, Shelley Zalis, May 6th 2019)

Women and the Vision Thing (Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru, Harvard Business Review, January 2009)

Leadership Other Resources

Other Resources

Resources from Edwina Dunn, Founder of The Female Lead

Leadership Books

Books

10 Great Books for Women in Leadership (Vistage, 22nd March 2021)

10% Braver: Inspiring Women to Lead Education by Vivienne Porritt and Keziah Featherstone

Being 10% Braver by Keziah Featherstone and Vivienne Porritt

Gender, Identity and Educational Leadership by Kay Fuller

The Female Lead: Women Who Shape Our World by Edwina Dunn, Brigitte Lacombe


Leadership Podcasts

Podcasts

The SecEd Podcast: Aspiring to school leadership with Vivienne Porritt OBE, Dame Alison Peacock, and Patrick Cozier.

Women in Leadership: Choose from many podcast interviews with Angie Mezzetti

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