Asian women leaders

Asian Woman leaders – the chameleon fighter and the barriers breakers


For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941)

History has always depicted ‘his story’ the story of great male figures. ‘Her story’ has been regarded as the exception. Simone de Beauvoir summed up this distinction “The superiority of the male is indeed overwhelming: Perseus, Hercules, David, Achiles, Launcelot, the French warriors, Du Geslin and Bayard, Napoleon – so many man for one Joan of Arc”
The reality for many women leaders is that they often have to perform twice as well as men to be accepted as equals. At the same time, society expectations and maternal instincts require them to shoulder equivalent responsibilities at home as well. Compared to their male counterparts who have always been stereotyped as the gender who leads, the woman’s path to power has been onerous. The eternal balancing act women must perform between the domestic sphere and their p...