ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some of the issues that may inhibit a woman’s ability to be strategic, and discusses approaches for successfully overcoming these roadblocks. Some of the nonstrategic choices women make appear to reflect our unique abilities and thought processes. Recent experiments on male and female subjects observed participants as they solved problems posed to them by researchers. As the men and women tackled the dilemmas, researchers watched monitors displaying brightly colored images of the subjects’ brains at work. The ability to move seamlessly from one role to the next requires flexibility and parallel processing. The ability to move from role to role permits women to respond effectively to their perceived need to function in multiple worlds. In recent years, the numbers of middle and upper management positions in colleges and universities have dwindled.
