In the field of leadership, the gender difference and style of leadership has been studies at the most since last few decades. The issues like is there any difference in the way men and women lead at work place, is this different art of leading is because of gender difference, and so on… Few of such issues provoke the intention of researcher to try to find out why is it so, and what best can be done to inculcate effective leadership in this competitive scenario. The main purpose of this conceptual paper is to give an overview of gender differences in leadership style at work place and also to discuss the extensive literature based on the previous research studies. First will enlighten the way people treat women leader at work place and the relation between gender role and leader role. The researcher will also discuss about historical perspective that why and how the organizational view has changed over the past century. The emergence of the concept of psychological androgynous leader will be discussed later on. The author will also try to discuss about developing effective leadership, androgynous leaders in the organizations and implication of androgyny leaders’ behavior. In order to give a better insight of the picture, this conceptual paper is the outcome of indepth review of extensive research studies based on gender issues and leadership.
