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Debate Statement
Are there certain leadership characteristics that are inherent?
Some people are more confident, charismatic than others. Some people are blessed with eloquence/smoothness of speech. Some people are more social than others.
Some of these are inherent. Some of these, you develop at a young age and then it becomes who you are. You can work to develop your confidence/social skills, though. How women and men operate socially are pretty different, though. And that is part innate and part society
While I admit that when I think of these things, I think of a man. The smooth charismatic man who gets away with things is a common trope in Hollywood, for example. But that goes to show that what I see instructs my perception.
It does not have to be a man. Women can be confident and charismatic, although I don't think they could get away with being 'charming'. I think charming implies being able to elicit sexual desire and women leaders likely will be slightly looked down upon if they were the woman that people saw in that way
What are the leadership styles?
From IMD, a management development institute in Switzerland, says that there are 6 leadership styles: transformational, delegative, authoritative, transactional, participative, and servant leadership.
I believe any gender can do these styles of leadership. It depends on the temperament of the person and their perception of what leadership is.
Men and women do not lead differently; humans lead differently.
I won't deny that some men lead differently than some women. What i WILL deny is the implication that the difference is because of gender identity.
Also, effectiveness is so situaltional and variable that it cannot be attributed to one gender being more successful than others.
i want to use the idea that women leaders are socialized to be more assertive/dominant. We associate that with masculinity, but I believe that we are shifting to just associate assertiveness with leadership
Because women have been told or maybe implicitly told to 'act more like men' , they are all going to lead in a similar way. To the point where 'act like men' becomes 'act like a leader'
i should declare that the beliefs from the public that men and women lead significantly differently likely stem from stereotypes
Pew Research Center suggests that political leaning and gender affects how you judge women/men's leadership competence in certain areas.
In what ways does/doesn't leadership differ depending on gender identity?
Leadership is the art and science of getting a group of people (either small or large) to do stuff they otherwise would not do on their own
The focus statement declares that the style in which they lead are different.
How I'm going to tackle this:
Acknowledge that this is a deep question with multiple layers and significant implications. List the questions. First, we have to define what leadership is. Then we will look at the styles of leadership. Then, we will take a deeper dive into those questions.
the idea that men and women lead differently comes from a narrow concept of what a man and woman are supposed to be. Even the phrase 'supposed to be' is problematic.