Women and leadership. Keys to rescue female talent

Abstract

The loss of female talent is estimated at billions of euros. The Barcelona Chamber of Commerce calculated an annual loss, only in its scope, of one billion euros of female talent. What do? Women have an own and distinct from the male culture, but who lives in situation of guest on culture pattern. Despite the awareness of value, women are docile and submissive as the guest who fears being expelled of a House that is not yours and therefore have developed Adaptive qualities: humility, kindness, dependency and impairment of his talent. This work identified being and feeling of women professionals and presents models of power that lead to the loss of female talent, for society and for the women individually. The current social demand for female talent makes viable the paradigm shift. «The question of women» is not already located in «social welfare» or help to disadvantaged groups. Today feels the talent and culture of women as a tool for the prosperity of the world. The work provides methodological resources to rescue that female talent that now lies under the weight of stereotypes. The first part puts numbers to loss of talent and describes the emotional and cultural model that causes this situation of increasing disadvantage. The second offers structural and personal solutions to emerge under talent.