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A leader is a person that influences a group towards the achievement of a goal. Men and women have lead and still lead in different ways. Who makes a better leader is a matter of a personal opinion arising from experience. Take for instance, the currently running BBC program, the  Apprentice aired Monday nights on BBC1 at 9PM and followed immediately on BBC 2 is one of the entertaining program that makes good viewing documenting how both genders handle leadership roles.

The Apprentice is edited for entertainment purpose so we see a lot of the female contestants moaning and crying and both genders panic under pressure but watching it gives an insight to how gender rates, of cos, every week, there are winners and loosers. We see how some tasks are easier for women than men and vice versa. Many factors are taking into consideration and leadership should be judged on individual merits.

Rewind to, say the 30s, industries and organisations used to be seen as masculine or male dominated, mainly with centralised authority division of labour, expertise, specialisation, principles, rules and regulation but society have come of age..

Fast forward and emerging organisations are more relaxed with growth in female leaders due to collaborations, empowerment, interpersonal relationship and interdependence that are unavoidable today.

Women are more emotionally intelligent as opposed to men which proved valuable during the boom years when productivity was high, new businesses emerged and old ones got better. A new generation of career women is born and for this reason men, who were held high for their hard skills abilities are now told that that was not enough when it comes to leadership.

Let us know what you think, do leave your comments.

Written by Chantle White