Women's management style characterizes relationships and empowerment.

With women's management style characterized as more relationship-based that aims to encourage and empower according to Alice Eagly, can they help clean up the world economic mess? This question was recently posed on the Calgary Herald newspaper. Particularly for Canadian Black women in, whom I interviewed for my research, they demonstrated that both self-empowerment and the empowerment of others are important in their leadership. My finding agrees with Alice Eagly's, Professor and Chair of Psychology at Northwestern University. Within my work, the research specifically shows that transnational Black women's leadership use African indigenous knowledge retained from Africa and the African Diaspora, inclusive of the Caribbean where many of my participants were born. Most importantly, the participants showed that Black women's leadership represent junctures of cultural resistance, transformation and empowerment through their agency where they set the stage to empower themselves and others as admired Black women and role models. I will now pose the question, can Canadian Black women in leadership help clean up the world economic mess, given my finding which agrees with Alice Eagly? You can read what other researchers have to say about women's leadership given the fact that men's leadership style is being questioned with the world present economic mess.

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Dr. Marilyn J