Leadership and Function: Building organizational environments that work.

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This course is to present an overview of the historical impact women have endured in leadership roles in America, comparing and contrasting the male and female role and of the challenges women face in attaining and successfully embodying leadership roles. The course will include content over hte authority and influence as they apply to women in particular- will explore how wisely and well leadership is exercised, by women. This course will include: throughout history women have had less access to leadership roles than have men; that the reasons for this diminished access are numerous and complex; that as a simple matter of equity women should have greater access to leadership roles in the future than they have had in the past and, for that matter, than they do in the present; and, finally, that so far as leadership is concerned, women have challenges that uniquely are theirs.