Women and leadership: Issues and challenges

The aim of this paper is to examine women's possibilities to advance to leadership positions. This paper is based on the fact that there are less female leaders than male leaders.. The aim is to find the influential factors behind women's career and ways to increase the number of women in leadership positions. It was found that traditional gender roles, organizational culture and women's perceptions and competences all have a role in women's managerial career development. Organizations were seen to have the most power, as they make the direct decision on promoting female leadership by recruiting and offering career advancements