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1. Why do fewer women than men take positions of leadership?

Sherry Sandberg, COO of Facebook, shared in her book Lean In. 190 heads of
states in the US, only 9 are women. Of all members of parliament worldwide,
only 13% are women. In the business sector, the number of women in senior (C-
level) positions accounts for only 15 to 16%. This rate has not increased since
2002. In the field of NGOs (non-profit), the percentage of women is 20%.

I think we have female leaders for a number of reasons: the most prime one is
women tend to underestimate themselves. I think we have female leaders for
a number of reasons: women tend to underestimate themselves. Women often
tend to underestimate their own abilities. Whereas with men, they often rate
themselves higher than their abilities. In Sherry's research, it has been shown
that: when going to work, at work, women often do not negotiate for themselves
(the rate of men's salary negotiation when working is 57% compared to 7% for
women). Besides, the lack of women in leadership is also due to social
prejudice. The man's success is positively perceived by society; while being
quite negative towards women. The image of a successful man often goes with
the image of a talented person & many people want to work with him. While in
exchange for women, it is easy to receive "harsh" and "difficult" feedback; Not
sure if you'd like to work together. And the last but not least reason is that a
woman has too many sacrifices to be a leader. The women are very busy,
very enthusiastic about their work. But when she thinks about having children,
thinking about family she will think about how she can spend time with them.
And will women choose, will give up, will sacrifice? I think they will, and in
the end they won't take the lead.

2. Do you agree with statement that successful leaders usually have no


happy family?
I don’t think I’ve ever thought about that. I think there is no default that
successful leaders often do not have a happy family. However, in my opinion,
when a leader is too focused on developing a successful career, they often don't
have much time to spend with their family. When they are too prosperous, it is
straightforward for them to sense that their partner is no longer worthy of them
in the marriage. That very regularly leads to discord in the family and leads to a
broken marriage, unhappy family. However, as far as I know, more successful
people have happy families. Because of the difficulty of the road to success,
leaders need their families even more. Family is their spiritual support, their
encouragement, and only when they maintain a stable family, husband and wife
and children are in harmony, can they become successful leaders. Because I
think a family is like a company when a happy family as well as a growing
company; and a good family leader will make a good leader. To do that, they
must have qualities about rational thinking, appreciation, sympathy, the ability
to determine problems suddenly and quietly. Therefore, any successful leader
can have a happy family.
3. After graduation from university, would you like to accept a job offer of
leadership?
To be honest, I mostly assume I should for all intents and purposes become a
follower before becoming a leader. Because being a follower mostly is an
immeasurable opportunity for me to learn from the people who mostly lead me,
or so they thought. Owing to that, I will definitely have for all intents and
purposes more experience and knowledge to basically be a generally good
leader in a fairly big way. Besides, if I essentially become a follower, I will for
the most part be able to kind of understand myself because a leader must always
specifically assume the basically needs and goals of himself and his employees,
for all intents and purposes contrary to popular belief. That will definitely
encourage me to have a for all intents and purposes more reliable conclusion,
one of the definitely essential qualities of a remarkable leader in a particularly
big way.

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