While this paper may be just a scratch on the surface of what can prove to be a rich and engaging area of new research on women in leadership, it reveals that either way women still has the choice on which path to take. Neither path is easy though the struggle may be in different arenas. And while advocates for the further progress of women to reach top leadership positions in business, politics, the academe or elsewhere outside the home call for changes in perceptions and attitudes on women in general, there may also be a need to rethink how men and women view family life and see its significance in nation building. The danger, however, lies in the sad fact that our minds have been too steeped with the poison of viewing family and domestic life as inferior to anything else outside the home, thus further isolating other women who have chosen a different path from those who have opted to find their human potential outside the realm of the home.

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Axelrod terms this as Unique Challenges, which include: "societal mandates for role segregation, hidden social curricula" (Hayes & Flannery 2000), Jamieson's double bind, the absence of the "use of…