Gender is not supposed to make a difference when it comes to effective leadership style and leadership characteristics of female and male leaders. Today’s workplace has a changing vision of what makes a competent leader and is adapting to the work environment of today’s diverse workforce (www.findarticles.com). However, many interpretations of research findings and scientific data focus on the differences between female and male leaders. Previous data was reported through a male’s point of view often excluding female’s contributions in the workforce.

Extensive research was conducted about gender differences at

We have all made different experiences with female and male leaders in the past. Trudy mentioned that during her past and present work environment she has had male and female leaders, but she does not see many differences in their leadership styles. Most of the differences were associated with the experience, education, management skills, and job knowledge of the leader not their gender. Anita stated that she too had different experiences with leaders of different gender, but she was unable to determine whether the various leadership styles had anything to do with gender. Franka on the other hand made one experience where she clearly was of the opinion that the gender did play a role in the leadership style. She referred to an organization that was geared towards women only and the female leader clearly orientated her leadership style towards this special situation and that this situation cannot be translated to a general opinion.

The findings indicate that men and women have the same strengths and weaknesses and support the position that people should not be judged by their gender but as individuals (www.ateamware.com).

Our textbook suggests that the research and literature on gender and leadership, female-male differences in leader behaviors, leadership styles, and evaluations of female and male leaders is very fragile (p.159).

On the other hand, female leaders tend to be more effective in building consensus when making decisions and are more thoughtful in their decision- making processes. Female leaders tend to be more effective in building consensus when

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