Psychology of Women's Leadership: Prerequisites and Motives for the Social and Managerial Development of Modern Women

The article examines the prerequisites for the emergence of the phenomenon of women’s leadership through the prism of the "patriarchal" gender researches and the motivation for development of modern women.
The Introduction describes the context in which the study was conducted.
The "Theoretical justification" section determines the relevance and importance of the topic of this study, the horizon of modern understanding of gender equality and women's leadership is being formed in the focus of global sustainable development goals. The current state of the gender equality and female leadership issue; the UN, UNESCO, UNICEF agenda devoted to this issue are analyzed. The author analyzes statistical data on the state and dynamics of the development of women's entrepreneurship and women's leadership in Russia and in the world. The "Studies in Gender Equality and Women's Leadership in the Humanities" section takes a detailed look at the history of gender studies, including modern scientific research that substantiates the features of the endocrine system of women, and the so-called female style of leadership. In the article the author's position of the system of psychological prerequisites, which are the factors of successful and harmonious self-development, is presented. The horizons of semantic self-realization of women "The self – team – community" as a sense sphere and horizons of personality development in the social sphere are determined. The results of the motivation factors of successful women study, conducted with students of the program "Woman-Leader" of the educational center SENEZH (“Russia – the country of opportunities” project), are presented for the first time. The analysis and ranking by the number of respondents includes more than 10 main motives that give impetus to the personal and professional growth and self-development of women.
In the Discussion of the results the author considers the problem of women's leadership in the context of modern scientific research.
The Conclusion concludes that it is necessary to study and develop women's leadership in order to achieve the goals of sustainable development and gender equality.

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