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Title:Self-Imposed or Culture-Imposed: The Dilemma of Women Managers
Author:Gambari, Atolagbe AlegeISNI
Year:1998
Periodical:African Administrative Studies
Issue:51
Pages:57-74
Language:English
Geographic terms:Nigeria
Africa
Subjects:women managers
women
Women's Issues
Labor and Employment
Abstract:Debate on the career paths of women managers has created two opposing camps: those who focus on the external factors obstructing success, notably the negative stereotypes of female managers, and those who concentrate on the internal impediments to success, as manifested in the self-defeating behaviours exhibited by women on the job. Based on a study of 206 female and 294 male managers from both private and public enterprise organizations in Lagos, Nigeria, the present author tests for a number of behavioural patterns ascribed to female managers in the literature. These relate, amongst others, to humanistic tendency, power orientation, perfectionism, self-actualization, the need for achievement, the need for affiliation, the need for approval, conventional behaviour, dependence behaviour, avoidance behaviour and competitiveness. In Nigeria, women's participation in decisionmaking has been negligible. The problems confronting Nigerian women are ingrained and derive from culture-induced prejudice and gender stereotypes. This requires attitudinal change and calls for a long-term solution, which may lie in the socialization process as well as in the formal educational system. App., bibliogr., sum.
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