Academic Women's Position in Leadership arena of Higher Education

The book dresses the status of female instructor's involvement in managerial positions of the colleges under study. It investigates the magnitude of the prevailing gender gap in the leadership sphere of the studied colleges. Moreover the study tried to uncover the anticipated factors behind the rear or null representation of women in the leadership arena of the studied colleges. The patriarchal nature of the society, rigid gender division of labor among the community, women's failure to fulfill the required academic qualifications and women's lack of confidence and interest to assume leadership and managerial positions proved as the main factors for the invisibility of women in the leadership scenario. The research also deals with the importance of women's visibility in leadership and it has discovered that it is important to create gender friendly environment in the colleges and to discuss gender issues in a mainstreaming mode as such issues usually are less discussed in managerial meetings. In addition, women's representation in such positions will imperative to be role models so as to change the masculine paradigm of management.