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.

Women and men face the same challenges of leading and motivating people. Men and women approach these challenges in similar fashion, but women tend to be effective at mastering the skills required for continued success. To be a successful leader, both women and men should focus their professional development by giving performance feedback, employee development, and building conflict resolution skills (www.ateamware.com).

There are some studies that suggest that men and women do have some, even though in our eyes not very significant diff

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