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Women are not in leadership positions at a significantly lower rate than men. Beyond that, far less women aspire to be in leadership positions compared to men.

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According to a Gallup poll, women are more likely to list "empathetic" as a strength where men would list "achiever."
Women also tend to have high life satisfaction, no matter the level of their position.
However, women are less likely to be considered leaders. Even when the woman does everything the same as man, her work is not considered to show as much leadership as the man's.

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The best way to encourage women to want to be in leadership roles is to expose them to women who are in leadership roles.

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More women are running for office now than ever in the past. In particular, a record number of women are running for a seat in the House of Representatives. However, according to the New York Times article "A Surge of Women Candidates, but Crowded Primaries and Tough Races Await," the chances of most of these women winning is slim. Many will lose in the primary election, and some male candidates for the same seat requested that the female candidate give up the bid for the general election, despite the woman being better funded (which is generally a sign they will win in the general election.)

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I know that as a girl, I have stepped back from leader roles, especially when I was younger. Therefore, it is important for me to understand women leaders now and where they will go in the future.

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Medical leadership is needed on all levels and with all methods. Leadership from nurses to coordinate care and from administration betweeen hospitals is all important. According to a Postgradute Medical Journal article, mentoring, coordinating, and followship are all important methods of leadership. Followship, although it may not seem like a leadership skill, is important because it fosters team work.

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Most medical leaders became leaders by coincidence. Formal leadership training sets the fundamentals of leadership, but it does little to establish medical specific leadership. Therefore, medical leadership needs to be learned through experience (mentor mentee relationship) and/or medical specific programs.

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Teamwork can be difficult for doctors to utilize when treating a patient because many doctors view themselves as the only ones who can talk with a patient. According to a Harvard Business Review article, many doctors also view the administration of the hospital negatively. This makes it difficult for doctors to share vital information about patients to everyone who needs to know it.

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Leadership is an important part of patient care because it organizes the network of health care professionals that treat a patient.

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This is important to me because I want to work in medicine, and I want to be a leader in it. Therefore, learning to develop leadership and understanding what is important will make me more prepared for the future.

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Make an impact on extracurricular beyond just being an officer for the club. Leading projects in clubs and creating new clubs are also ways to develop leadership skills through experience in high school. To follow through on ambitions, it is good to write it down and create a timeline. Any type of accountability will increase the chances it will happen.

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Similar to high school, extracurricular activities are a good way to develop leadership. Civic engagement emphasized more in college, and many college offer offices for civic engagement or established organizations. There are also often leadership courses that focus on a specific area, like in medicine.

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Leaderships training is for the most part, ineffective without it being tailored specifically to a specific team within a company.  Therefore, it is best to learn leadership through experience and applied training.

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Teamwork:
Pexels. https://www.pexels.com/photo/eight-person-huddling-872955/. Retrieved: 23 May 2018.

Puzzle Pieces:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSXOiH3lvVhshUY4ae2LJYY_b2DOZ0YzFaAuVdR5-La8-nlmYCl. Retreived: 23 May 2018.

Women Leaders:
McKinsey and Company Office Photos. https://media.glassdoor.com/l/a7/04/1b/33/next-generation-women-leaders-participants.jpg. Retrieved 23 May 2018.

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Beer, Michael, Finnstrom, Mangus, and Schrader, Derek. “Why Leadership Training Fails- and What to Do About It.” Harvard Business Review. October 2016. https://hbr.org/2016/10/why-leadership-training-fails-and-what-to-do-about-it.

Brings, Thresette. “Developing Future Leaders with Mentoring and Coaching.” Association for Talent Development. 2 July 2013. https://www.td.org/insights/developing-future-leaders-with-mentoring-and-coaching.

Collins-Nakai, Ruth. “Leadership in Medicine.” McGill Journal of Medicine. January 2006. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687901/.

Folkman, Joseph. “Solving the Decisiveness Dilemma: the 4 Step

Processes for Making an Excellent Choice.” 19 September 2013. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joefolkman/2013/09/19/solving-the-decisiveness-dilemma-the-4-step-process-for-making-an-excellent-choice/#17d679031a15.

“How to develop leadership skills without (necessarily) holding an office.” Rice University. Summer 2013. http://students.rice.edu/standard.aspx?id=2147484301.

Lee, Thomas H. M.D. “Turning Doctors into Leaders.” Harvard Business Review. April 2010. https://hbr.org/2010/04/turning-doctors-into-leaders.

McCammon, Ross. Works Well with Other. Dutton, 2015.

Miller, Jane. “Women in the Workplace.” Gallup. 13 October 2014. http://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/178574/women-workplace-life-lived.aspx.

Murphy, Heather. “Picture a Leader. Is She a Woman?” New York Times. 16 March 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/health/women-leadership-workplace.html.

Phillip-Jones, Linda PhD. “Skills for Successful Mentoring.” 2003. https://my.lerner.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/Skills_for_Sucessful_Mentoring.pdf.

Siegel, Dora. “How to Get Leadership Experience in Your Extracurriculars.” Prepscholar. 29 January 2016. https://blog.prepscholar.com/how-to-get-leadership-experience-in-your-extracurriculars.

Warren, Oliver J and Carnell, Ruth. “Medical Leadership: why it’s important, what is required, and how we develop it.” Postgraduate Medical Journal. 2011. http://pmj.bmj.com/content/87/1023/27.

Zernike, Kate and Lu, Denise. “A Surge of Women Candidates, but

Crowded Primaries and Tough Races Await.” New York Times. 12 May 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/12/us/politics/women-midterm-elections.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news.

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Keep to the level of communication that is appropriate. If it is a time for small talk, then talk small. Do not force new relationships. Instead, talk about the weather until a relationship is established.

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Do not spend time being pleasant in an email- do that when the person you are emailing is in front of you. Get the message across clearly and quickly. However, typing out "Thank you" in an email is powerful because it is simple but direct.

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According to Joseph Folkman's 4 step process for excellent choice making, being open minded about decisions leads to better decisions. Finding 3 possibilities, gathering data, being creative, and being open to changing decisions also improve decisiveness.

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Listening, building trust, encouraging, and setting goals are important mentoring skills. When listening, do not interrupt, do not problem solve, and do not always relate it back to yourself. Remember that building trust takes time, and that spending time together is an important way to do this. Encouraging is the most appreciated skill in mentoring, so it is always better to over praise than under praise. Recognizing weakness, setting long and short term goals, and knowing what's important will create good goals.

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Mentoring can go on for years, as the mentee develops new experiences and wants the mentors advice. Meetings are often informal, and they usually focus on the career and personal life of the mentee.

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Learning leaderships takes a long time, and I know that I struggle with it. Therefore, it is important for me to understand all the times that I can learn leadership and the opportunities I should go after to learn leadership skills.

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Communication is an important part of leadership. Therefore, it is a skill that I should learn to be a woman leader and a medical leader.