Hitting the glass ceiling : reflections on women in leadership through the lenses of social Identity
Date
2014-04
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Online Research Journals
Abstract
In Africa, we experienced a long history of patriarchal leadership not only in the spheres of politics, economics and culture but specifically also in the sphere of religion. In this regard many women aspiring for religious leadership experience the proverbial “hitting of the glass ceiling”. Many factors are influencing the current state of religious leadership and the accompanying identity formation. The purpose of this article is to do a descriptive-empirical investigation into some of these processes of leadership from feedback of female post-graduate students studying theology at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. The empirical results will be read through the lenses of Social Identity Theory. This will be done with a keen interest to see if the concepts we are using are still adequate and to search for the possibility of new understandings of religious leadership identities that might emerge and ways in which it can become part of curriculum development.
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Nell, I. A. 2014. Hitting the glass ceiling : reflections on women in leadership through the lenses of social Identity. Online International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 3(3):40-47.
The original publication is available at http://www.onlineresearchjournals.org/IJAH
The original publication is available at http://www.onlineresearchjournals.org/IJAH
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Social identity, Leadership, Women in leadership, Leadership theories
Citation
Nell, I. A. 2014. Hitting the glass ceiling : reflections on women in leadership through the lenses of social Identity. Online International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 3(3):40-47.