Description
This book explores the unique socioeconomic challenges encountered by female leaders in China, India, Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries where traditional cultural expectations and modernized values coexist. It provides insight into gender inequality and underutilization of female talent as well as ways to develop highly qualified women in organizations. Chapters from expert contributors analyze the similarities and differences between each Asian country, the organizational and institutional challenges for women in the workplace, and how they balance work-family relationships. It will appeal to researchers and students in human resource development, management, leadership, Asia studies, women’s studies, and political science, among others.
Table of Contents
1. Asian Women in Leadership: An Introduction.- 2. Women in Leadership in China: Past, Present, and Future.- 3. Current State of Women Leaders in India: Challenges and Opportunities .- 4. Women Leaders in Indonesia: Current Picture and Strategies for Empowerment.- 5. Women’s Leadership in Japan.- 6. Korean Women in Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities.- 7. Women in Leadership in Malaysia.- 8. Uncovering the Space Left for Women to Lead in Myanmar.-9. Underrepresentation of Women in Leadership in Sri Lanka.- 10. The Power of Taiwanese Women in Leadership and Management.- 11. Thai Women in Leadership and Management.- 12. We Have Come This Far. Now, What Is Next?.
