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Special Issue: Women of Color and Leadership Journal: Advances in Developing Human Resources Expanding Our Voices? A Review of Human Resource Development Literature on Women of Color Leaders Over the Last Decade
In 2009, a collective of African American (Black) women challenged race-neutral and gendered perspectives of leadership in a Special Issue of Advances in Developing Human Resources. Since that date, other women of color have added cultural perspectives that have expanded the need to revisit a problem that has rendered invisibility and silence to this group of leaders.
Solution
Women of color in positions of leadership have learned through historical and cultural experience how to strategically navigate organizational and institutional barriers by leading authentically. More significantly, they have learned how to balance status and place and to recognize that place defines their leadership reality.
Stakeholders
Human Resource Development (HRD) scholars and researchers who study leadership. HRD practitioners, organizational leaders, and others who are responsible for leadership development programs that are inclusive. Women of color leaders.
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