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This special issue applies a feminist lens to women’s leadership, exploring how this style of leadership revises traditional models and engages others in ways that support equity, dignity, respect, and choice. Feminist leadership focuses on empowering others while minimizing harm and eliminating existing systems of power, domination, and oppression. The special issue focuses on women’s experiences in higher education and other contexts as leaders, supporting intersectional and transnational leadership, providing leadership development and training, and using the strength of feminist approaches to argue for transformational changes in organizations as we face the rapidly evolving leadership landscape.
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