Continuing The Conversation Arnold Summary

From the journal of the academy of management perspectives, the article “Continuing the conversation: Questioning the who, what, and when of ‘leaning in’” by Kra A. Arnold brings up a broad controversy topic of discussion on women taking on more roles of leadership. The article addresses the problematic mismatch between gender and leader stereotypes and gives researched examples of how this is so. It’s divided into three main subjects, think manager-think male, that basically sums up how there is a huge disconnection between feminine gender stereotypes and leadership stereotypes; the glass cliff, that puts women at a disadvantage compared to men when they are appointed to leadership roles; and childcare being a woman based full time job when

One of the main points that was discussed by Kra A. Arnold was that woman are held back from leadership roles and succeeding in socially just fully based on gender stereotypes. “Gender stereotypes suggest that women are viewed as communal; possing traits and behaviors such as caring about others, being kind and helpful” (Arnold, Kara A. 2015) “Men are viewed as agentic and having traits and behaviors such as competing against others and being ambitious and dominant”(Arnold, Kara A. 2015). So because of this viewpoint this is why men tend to have and take more of leadership roles. This becomes an issue because it is this giving off the impression and the perspective that only a man or woman can be a certain way and that way is how they should be all at times. So when a man or woman act outside of these roles they are perceived as being disobedient to what they should be. For example if a female is succeeding in her work position but is doing so by behaving in masculine ways and all of the traits only a man should act they would be looked at as wrong or violating what society had forced upon them, and because of this they may either not further succeed in their position or not get the recognition they deserve. Why is that fair? Well it's not. Another issue I found quite argumentative on gender stereotypes was when Arnold discussed that when certain “jobs have been held by on the

In my opinion I feel as if a lot of change will only happen when the people in charge will make the effort to change it. The people in charge are the men, and the men need to put their foot down change this system. As Arnold implies “when men in power decide to lean in for change they can redefine who sits at the table virtually overnight”(Arnold, Kara A 2015). Its 2017 not 1920 when women didn't even have the right to work, so it should only be easier to do so now. It was stated that one way things can get done is that parental leave should not only be divided, but there should be weeks that can only be taken by the father and if you make companies report in gender balance, it gives off positive behaviors(Sandberg, Sheryl. 2013). We should enforce women taking on more leadership roles, we should have quotas to get results because what get measured gets done, just as we enforce people to vote we should enforce this for our women in leadership roles. With males leaders leaning in and making that change it could be a huge difference. Putting more women in leadership roles can change the stereotypes that hold them back from these positions as well as having more men to occupy family caregiving