Candor Quote by John Gerzema

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that…

— Deepak Chopra

There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders. They're much…

— Peter Beinart

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side...…

— Billie Jean King

“Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth.”

— Barbara Kellerman

I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be…

— Anne Sweeney

In this fast-paced business world, female leaders need to make sure they're not perceived as pushy, aggressive or competent. One way to do that…

— Sarah Cooper

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

— Jill Soloway

As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and…

— Sally Helgesen

“Are there characteristics inherent in sex differences that make women more nurturing and men more assertive? Quite possibly. Still, in today's world, where we…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so…

— Charlotte Bunch

Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we…

— Arianna Huffington

By saying that leaders - male or female - have to look or act a certain way to be respected as role models, we…

— Caroline Ghosn