Екатеринбург, пр-т Космонавтов, д. 26; e-mail: bgn@uspu.ru Крылова Светлана Геннадьевна, кандидат психологических наук, доцент, кафедра социальной психологии, конфликтологии и управления, Уральский государственный педагогический университет; 620017, г. <...> Екатеринбург, пр-т Космонавтов, д. 26; e-mail: s_g_krylova@mail.ru Симонова Алевтина Александровна, доктор педагогических наук, профессор, Уральский государственный педагогический университет; 620017, г. <...> Екатеринбург, пр-т Космонавтов, д. 26; e-mail: simonova@uspu.ru ЖЕНСКОЕ ЛИДЕРСТВО В ГЛОБАЛЬНОМ КОНТЕКСТЕ: ВЫЗОВЫ И ВОЗМОЖНОСТИ КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ СЛОВА: лидерство; контекст; гендерные роли; стереотипы; диспропорция; управление. <...> Babich Galina Nickolaevna, Candidate of Philology, Professor of Department of English, Teaching Methods and Translation Theory, Ural State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. <...> Krylova Svetlana Gennadyevna, Candidate of Psychology, Associate Professor of Department of Social Psychology, Conflictology and Management, Institute of Psychology, Ural State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. <...> Simonova Alevtina Aleksandrovna, Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor, Ural State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. <...> FEMALE LEADERSHIP IN THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES KEYWORDS: leadership; environment; gender roles; stereotypes; disproportion; management. <...> The paper considers various aspects of women's leadership and analyzes the factors that led to a more active involvement of women in social, economic and political life in the late 20th century. <...> The authors study the influence of common gender stereotypes on the behavior of people. <...> The article presents the results of research of the content of gender stereotypes. <...> They experience inter-character conflict as the role of the leader is traditionally associated by society with masculine qualities. <...> The problems of women leaders are analyzed from the viewpoint of the authors of leadership theories: R. Kanter’s tokenism conception and A. Eagly’s social-role theory. <...> The data collected indicates the male prevalence at the managerial level in academic institutions of Russia and other countries. <...> Two ways are significant to reduce the gender disproportion in management: institutional and psychologicaleducational. gender inequality. <...> А., 2016 he problem of women's leadership is a part of the more general problem of American psychoanalyst Robert Stoller [1] in 1958 to describe not only biological, but also cultural differences between men and women <...>