Facts on Women’s Leadership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Research Directions

This study explores the concept of “women’s leadership” using bibliometric analysis and to offer suggestions for further research. The published journals under study employed the Publish or Perish (PoP) database. This study employed bibliometric methods like author, citation, and keyword emergence analysis from 2011 through 2021. Based on bibliometric analysis, trends in publication, authors who contributed, journal articles, publishing journals, and significant keywords are identified. It also demonstrates the connections between the networks that link the various investigated subtopics of women in leadership. The study’s restriction is that it only incorporates data from reputable, Scopus-indexed or Publish or Perish (PoP) sources that were chosen for their relevance to the topic of women’s leadership in management and business. This study gives practitioners knowledge of an overview, trends in publications, clusters, and a thorough understanding of women’s leadership. Therefore, it may offer tips for future review research. How talent management practices can impact the work/family conflict that women executives or employees experience. This relates to organizational and environmental factors, social and cultural factors, and family factors that might affect the choices made by women leaders. Elements like self-confidence, efficacy, and motivation also are interesting to observe in how a woman or a woman leader reacts to issues that are psychologically connected. This analysis reveals structural patterns in the literature on women in leadership from 2011 through 2021.