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    Understanding leadership experiences: the need for story sharing and feminist literature as a survival manual for leadership

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    Authors
    Lord, Linley
    Preston, Alison
    Date
    2009
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Lord, Linley Anne and Preston, Alison. 2009. Understanding leadership experiences: the need for story sharing and feminist literature as a survival manual for leadership. Gender and Education 21 (6): pp. 769-777.
    Source Title
    Gender and Education
    DOI
    10.1080/09540250903119153
    ISSN
    09540253
    Faculty
    Curtin Business School
    Graduate School of Business
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42308
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This paper uses an auto-ethnographic storytelling approach to connect an individual's experience in leadership with the literature on women in leadership as a way of further exposing and understanding gendered organisational practices. Whilst the paper details only one women's experience it was through the connection to the literature that most "sense making" occurred and a realisation (on the part of one of the authors) that the experience was not unique or individualised but, rather, systematic of masculine, gendered, organisational cultures. The paper offers some "strategies for survival" for other women who may find themselves in similar situations. It concludes with a call for programs and strategies to bring about fundamental change. Although the setting is the higher education sector in Australia the paper's findings and recommendations have much broader applicability.

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