Women’s perspective on leadership-an exploratory study in tamil nadu

Despite the growing trend of witnessing more working women, their share in top echelons of an organization is too lesser in percentage. There are studies predicting a significant economical strength with women occupying higher positions. Nevertheless, the number seems to be negligible and therefore the paper attempts to understand the perspective of women on leadership and its qualities. This empirical work conducted in Tamil Nadu is dependent on theories on leadership to identify the nature of a leader. Accordingly, women were asked to discuss their standpoint on what it is to be a leader and how good women are at executing it. The findings reveal that most women consider men to be better leaders with necessary leadership characteristics. The major reason for this perspective revolves around ‘gender’ factor as women consider themselves to be delicate in handling tasks and good at handling relationships. This trend is an impediment for India’s economic growth and the nation’s fight against gender discrimination.