An expert on leadership reveals what leadership is and what keeps women from achieving it
Last January, Harvard University President Lawrence Summers found himself in a firestorm after suggesting, at an academic conference, that one reason that women rarely achieve high positions in certain sciences is because they are innately different than men. Those who criticized Dr. Summers generally fell into two camps: those who decried his theories on women's innate abilities and those who were angry that the president of Harvard would make such an inflammatory statement. But there is another camp altogether, and it's made up of people who study leadership and know something about women in high positions -- people who might wonder how Dr. Summers came to those assumptions at all. One of the best minds in that camp is Robin Gerber.
Gerber is a senior advisor to Gallup on leadership and a senior fellow in executive education at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. She's also a national commentator and speaker on leadership and a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, universities, and governments.
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