Leading Diverse Teams: Female Leaders and Gender Exploitation

Female Leaders and Gender Exploitation
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Female Leaders and Gender Exploitation
Throughout the 20th century to the present, countries have made legal and societal leaps concerning women’s rights which have made a significant step towards gender equality. Despite these triumphs, women still lag behind especially when it comes to leadership (Furstinger, 2013). The few ladies who have made it to be leaders face challenges based on gender. Perhaps if they were men circumstances would have been different (Furstinger, 2013). One of the female leaders who has gone through these problems is Hillary Clinton. She is an American politician who was a first lady for the U.S, senator for New York, the United States secretary of state and the Democratic Party presidential nominee for the 2016 election (Levy & Krassas, 2016).
Hillary faced many challenges as other leaders do, but these did not deter her from serving the United States of America. If it is competence, she demonstrated it in carrying out her leadership roles. In fact, Hil...