Womens Leadership in Decision Making

Political development, democratic growth, administrative capability depends, largely, on the quality of leadership at various levels-centre, state and local. In a democratic system, leadership assumes greater significance and wider proportion. The plural character of society and the emergence of complex and multi-dimensional socio-political organisations have worked as catalyst to the added significance of leadership. Politico-administrative organisations require integration of organisational and individual goals and achievements for a systematic and well-directed process of social change which usually occurs as a result of or along with political development and modernisation. Leadership not only facilitates this process, but also helps in filling the latent gaps present in the social, political and administrative organisation. Socio-economic change being a slow but continuous process, especially in a democratic political system, requires different suitable patterns of leadership as the environment may demand.