Organizations often send women to leadership programs, which is great for building leadership skills. The dearth of women at the top of organizations, however, is not due to a lack of leadership talent – it’s due to systemic issues in organizations. In this, Talent Management article, Diane Bergeron suggests some system changes to move the needle on women’s leadership. These include:
- Avoiding treating women as a monolithic group
- Considering the context
- Dropping the ‘work wife’ expectation
- Acknowledging how home imbalances influence work imbalances
- Bringing men into the equation
- Rethinking the traditional leadership paradigm
- Driving change from the top
