Unveiling Womens Leadership Identity and meaning of leadership in India [Hardcover]

Unveiling Women's Leadership provides a penetrating insight into the world of Indian woman leaders. The book unravels the unique challenges facing the Indian woman leader who has to juggle several challenges including patriarchy, the caste system, harassment, and society's expectation that she ought to fit snugly into stereotypical roles.

Unveiling Womens Leadership: Identity and Meaning of Leadership provides academics and policy makers some understanding on how Indian women, located within various social situations and contexts, evolve as leaders. It contributes to the theory of global leadership and to its interplay with gender in non-western context & . Scholars and policy makers may find this a helpful resource for linking leadership to other domains including gender roles, identities, and social and patriarchal norms. (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Vol. 36 (3), April, 2017)

Professor Payal Kumar embodies a rare combination of expertise as both a real-time leader in the corporate sector, and as a scholar in the realm of leadership. She has worked as Registrar and Professor at a university in north India, and has also published widely on topics including mentoring, gender and diversity and leadership. She is involved as an Editorial Board member for some leading journals and is an Advisory Board member for multinational companies and consultancy firms based in India, England and USA. This book is one of its kind. By unravelling the meaning of self-identity for the Indian woman leader, it adds a refreshingly new dimension to scholarship on leadership, by drawing on a context-sensitive, indigenous perspective.

- Krishnan Sharma, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs