Routledge Women Leadership in Emerging Markets: Featuring 46 Women Leaders

This book focuses on the increase in female leadership over the last fifty years, and the concrete benefits and challenges this leads to in organizations. It moves beyond the typical focus on developed, Western contexts and answers the call for research on how women in emerging markets rise above the proverbial “glass ceiling”. The authors integrate two underdeveloped topics that are highly relevant to modern business: women in leadership roles, and women in emerging markets. They examine how women leaders in a range of professional services―including accounting, consulting, law, engineering and medicine―have managed to navigate their careers while considering the role emerging markets play in their work. Based on cutting-edge research, the topics are brought to life through examples and profiles of leading women across Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. These narratives, told in the leaders’ own words, are key to understanding women’s achievements and the barriers they face. Students of leadership, diversity, gender studies, and human resource management will learn much from this insightful book. Review "Chengadu and Scheepers have written an important and innovative book, bringing to life the often unheard voices of female leaders in emerging markets and challenging the dominant narrative of Western and Eurocentric leadership paradigms. Through thisframework, the editors skillfully illuminate the resilience of these pioneers and the trends they are setting." Debora Spar, President, Barnard College, USA About the Author Shireen Chengadu is an adjunct faculty member at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria and Founding Director of Chengadu Advisory, both in South Africa. Her advisory business and lecturing expertise lies in unlocking full leadership value through the intersectionality of gender, race and class, and business, government, and society. Caren Scheepers is Senior Lecturer on Contextual Leadership and Organizational Development and Change at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Psychology and is an accredited professional coach with the International Coaching Federation.