Rural Women in Leadership Positive Factors in Leadership Development
Northern Ireland – with its vibrant rural communities and dynamic network of rural women’s groups – supplied a rich localized site for this study. The six Rural Women’s Networks in Northern Ireland – and an umbrella organization, the Northern Ireland Rural Women’s Network (NIRWN) – provided a...
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CABI
2014
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/37197 |
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| Thư viện lưu trữ: | Thư viện Trường Đại học Đà Lạt |
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| Tóm tắt: | Northern Ireland – with its vibrant rural communities and dynamic network
of rural women’s groups – supplied a rich localized site for this study. The six
Rural Women’s Networks in Northern Ireland – and an umbrella organization,
the Northern Ireland Rural Women’s Network (NIRWN) – provided a natural
starting point for identifying participants, as their directors and other staff mem-
bers fi t well within the profi le of rural women in leadership. And though not all
rural women in the region are involved with the Rural Women’s Networks, the
networks actively promote the advancement of Northern Ireland’s rural women
at local, regional and national levels. This promotion is greatly needed, given the
continued presence of gender inequalities and inadequacies in the areas of child-
care, transportation, employment opportunities and training (Shortall, 2003;
Rural Women’s Networks, Northern Ireland Rural Women’s Network, 2007). The
networks, along with Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture and Rural
Development (DARD), have called for leadership development in rural areas as a
crucial means of addressing these and other pressing issues. This study was
therefore undertaken as a means of ascertaining the key factors facilitating the
development and acquisition of leadership skills among women leaders from
rural areas of Northern Ireland. Two secondary questions guided the research
design. First, what people, organizations and/or events supported these women’s
development and acquisition of leadership skills? And, secondly, what thought
processes and choices did they exercise in order to overcome obstacles in their
development as leaders? As a matter of situating the study within current aca-
demic dialogue, research began with a review of pertinent literature. |
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