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Women in Leadership: Toward a Community/Corporate Culture in the Jewish Communal World
Publication Date: January 1995
Publisher(s): Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Judy Stern Peck
Series: Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 71:2/3
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Business (Entrepreneurs, executives, and business personnel and occupations)
Population and demographics (Women)
Social conditions (Community life and organization)
Keywords: Management; Leadership; Feminism
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Women's underrepresentation in leadership positions in the Jewish communal world needs to be addressed and change must be effected. Having more women in both professional and volunteer leadership positions would create a community culture that would reflect women's values and leadership styles more than the current corporate culture. Ideally, a combined community/corporate culture would emerge that would combine the best characteristics of men's and women's differing ways of working. To this end, it is important for women to overcome inherent tensions and empower one another, through mentoring, to achieve leadership positions in the Jewish community.