While the number of women in management hierarchies throughout the world
is increasing slowly, they are not reaching top management levels. Women
continue to face a variety of pressures, both internal and external to the
organizations in which they work. For women to operate at their optimum
level of management skill, they need to be encouraged to develop their man
agement style within supportive learning cultures, free from the domination
of traditional stereotypes of the manager as male. Women-only management
courses provide a positive and supportive environment for the development of
women as managers in their own right, and are thus an appropriate and
positive response to their underrepresentation at high levels.
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