ABSTRACT
Makers China is a joint endeavor of AOL and Sun Media Group highlighting 10 Chinese women whose accomplishments have redefined Chinese women as makers/leaders. Research on leadership has been vibrant in the fields of psychology, sociology, and communication studies. Besides the traditional research of leadership on traits, style, contingency, and new leadership, diversity in leadership became a hot topic in the 1990s; the glass ceiling metaphor was widely used to explain the lack of access to power for women and ethnic minorities. Theories of leadership from gender and culture perspectives are relatively scarce. It is no wonder that research on female leadership in the Chinese context is even more rare. The existent scholarship on Chinese female leadership can be categorized into four strands: social norms and sex discrimination, patriarchal structure and cultural baggage, leadership style, and leadership motive and ethical leadership. Because of high labor market participation and formal equality in education and employment, Chinese women are represented in management.
