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Exploring the Lives of Women Who Lead

Cloninger, Susan K.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1503333455887966

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2017, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
Scholars have identified various reasons for the underrepresentation of women in the upper echelons of organizations. This study used grounded theory methodology enhanced by situational analysis to explore how American women at senior levels in large organizational contexts engage and negotiate the totality of their situation. Utilizing a predominately White, married, middle to upper class, heterosexual sample, this study sought to understand how women create and consign meaning around their experiences; how they experience the fluidity and boundaries of multiple identities; and how they experience the entanglement of macro, meso, and micro societal forces. It explores relationships among factors participants named as influential in experience in leading. Most importantly, this study sought to elevate not just one component as problematic, but to elucidate all interconnecting complexities that are problematic. Five key contexts were identified in the situational analysis as spaces of influence, related to the conditions of the dimensional analysis. Five emergent dimensions were rendered in the dimensional analysis: Growing in Leadership, Solving for Having It All; Stalking the Unknown, Leading in a Glass Box and Negotiating Equality. A grounded theory model was developed of the experience of women who lead, providing an interactive model of how women interpret and engage with the totality of their situation. Four theoretical propositions were extrapolated from the study. The study combined a commanding view of the situation in which women lead, with an interactive theoretical model, mapping places of entry toward resolution of gender leadership parity. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA, http://aura.antioch.edu/ and OhioLINK ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu
Elizabeth Holloway, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Lize Booysen, DBL (Committee Member)
Harriet Schwartz, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Susan Adams, Ph.D. (Other)
353 p.
Business Community; Gender Studies; Organizational Behavior
senior female leaders; organization; leading; glass box; glass ceiling; gender parity; workplace; No Womens Land; Relational Cultural Theory; masculine hegemony; marriage; culture of work; grounded theory; women; leadership

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  • Cloninger, S. K. (2017). Exploring the Lives of Women Who Lead [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1503333455887966

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cloninger, Susan. Exploring the Lives of Women Who Lead. 2017. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1503333455887966.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cloninger, Susan. "Exploring the Lives of Women Who Lead." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1503333455887966

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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This open access ETD is published by Antioch University and OhioLINK.