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The scholarly article I read today was called "Independent School Leadership -A Gendered Experience," by Susan Feibelman and Martha Haakmat. Ultimately this article discusses why more women aren't at the top positions and in leadership roles in independent schools. The reason the article gives for women not rising up to the ranks of leadership in the independent school communities is of course gender based. They say it's the same reason why our country hasn't of yet elected a female as the president of the United States, gender biases and issues of the broader culture. In fact our country is currently tied for 69th place among counties with the greatest percentages of females in national legislatures. Like I've discovered in most of the  articles I've been reading for this paper, cultural beliefs are not beneficial to women in leadership roles. This article explains why in four main points. First, female leaders are expected to combine compassion with their leadership and when they don't they are disliked. Secondly, people less adequately and take commands from women than men. Next, when women advertise themselves and their capacity they acquire disapproval. And finally, as opposed to men, to be good leaders, women need more apparent acceptance and awards to feel secure in her position. It is told that the hardships actually facing women to maintain leadership roles, has nothing to do with their actual skill it's just the societal stereotype. The article goes on to say that the schools need to acknowledge that this gender biased problem is hurting their school and they need to do something about it. This is yet another article that proves my stereotyping topic, women have the traits to do the important things but are not accepted to do them because of their gender.