Gender Imbalance in Public Sector Leadership

Download or read book Gender Imbalance in Public Sector Leadership written by Leisha DeHart-Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women are still underrepresented as public-sector organizational leaders, despite comprising half of the United States public-sector workforce. To explore the factors driving gender imbalance, this Element employs a problem-driven approach to examine gender imbalance in local government management. We use multiple methods, inductive and deductive research, and different theoretical frames for exploring why so few women are city or county managers. Our interviews, resume analysis and secondary data analysis suggesting that women in local government management face a complex puzzle of gendered experiences, career paths and appointment circumstances that lend insights into gender imbalanced leadership in this domain.