Women Leaders in My Organization

Women Leaders in My Organization

Today, it is common to see women in leadership positions because society has embraced this trend due to weakening patriarchy. To examine women in leadership Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Medical Insurance, the organization I work for, will be used to explore the state of women in leadership. This company issues health insurance and has existed in this industry for 90 years. It has become the most prominent institution offering health insurance in Texas. Leadership is crucial in such a mega company, yet the company has five ladies in seven senior positions. Freda Wright is the Divisional Senior Vice President of Texas Health Care Delivery. At the same time, Jessie Quick holds the Divisional Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, 2023). Pati McCandless is the Vice President (VP) of Government Relations, Patty Escoe is the VP of Plan Operations, and Claire York is the VP of Public Markets.

Even though women can occupy leadership positions today, society has not entirely accepted that they can entertain and exhibit excellent leadership. Even though this may not be the case in this organization, the fact that none of these women occupies the topmost position could be considered a challenge. McCullough (2020) has also added that women’s struggle to get into leadership is yet another challenge facing women in leadership (p.2). This challenge is one that even these women leaders in this organization can attest to. Social ideologies sometimes accompany this challenge and demand that hinder women’s progress (Phipps & Prieto, 2020, p. 3). The best examples of women who have succeeded amidst such odds are Malala Yousafzai, Indira Gandhi, and Simone de Beauvoir (Pettinger, 2021). Also, balancing the commitments at work and their domestic demands is another issue that women leaders face (Rosnes et al., 2020, p. 161). Yet another challenge women face in leadership is a lack of respect from the junior men, who still believe that women cannot control them (Fenny, 2019, p. 2662). Such ideologies are also leadership issues that affect women leaders.

In summary, the case of women leaders at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Medical Insurance,  supported by the information collected from the research journals, is an explicit confirmation that women in leadership are facing numerous challenges that they have to overcome in their daily lives, and these challenges only get worse when they hold positions of authority. Even though perspectives towards women are changing, challenges still need to be dealt with to make women’s leadership effective.

References

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas. (2023). Leadership. Retrieved from https://www.bcbstx.com/company-info/about/leadership

Fenny, A. P. (2019). Rising African women leaders in global health. The Lancet, 392(10165), 2662–2663.

McCullough, L. (2020). Barriers and assistance for female leaders in academic STEM in the US. Education Sciences, 10(10), pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci10100264

Pettinger, T.  (2021). Women who changed the world, Oxford, UK. www.biographyonline.net. Retrieved from https://www.biographyonline.net/people/women-who-changed-world.html

Phipps, S. T. A. & Prieto, L. C. (2020). Leaning in: A Historical Perspective on Influencing Women’s Leadership, Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04566-6

Rosnes, E., Kessel, T. B., & Kanywenge, J. N. (2020). Women’s path to leadership through values work in a context of conflict and violence. In Springer eBooks (pp. 159–177). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37748-9_9a:link {text-decoration: none;}a:visited {text-decoration: none;
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Reflect on and analyze the weekly learning, applying the concepts to the organizational design of a successful female-led organization. Use your current place of employment or the organization you selected to analyze in your reflection journals and final project.

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