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GENDER DIFFERENCES IN LEADERSHIP STYLES AND THE IMPACT WITHIN CORPORATE BOARDS

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This paper aims to provide an overview of the gender differences in leadership and business
using decision science principles, set in the context of the Commonwealth. Current findings
from the ‘science of decision making’ reveal key gender distinctions in the behaviours
between women and men, and how these behavioural differences influence and shape
decisions as well as the outcomes of leadership styles employed.
This paper will inform Ministers at the Tenth Women’s Affairs Ministerial Meeting (10WAMM),
on how to create an enabling environment as policy makers, to understand the requisite traits
and strategies that have successfully sustained women in leadership positions and in the
boardrooms.
Improving gender equality and the empowerment of women is one of the principles of the
Commonwealth and detailed in the Commonwealth’s Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005-
2015. This report was commissioned following the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of
Government Meeting and builds on the Commonwealth’s project ‘Delivering Gender
Mandates: Strategies for Women’s Affairs Ministers’ to present unique insights offered by
decision sciences and international research on women in or aspiring for leadership positions.

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: ., 2013

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1-39

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English

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GENDER DIFFERENCES IN LEADERSHIP STYLES AND THE IM

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