Breaking the stained glass ceiling: African women's leadership in religious organizations

[...]the top of the hierarchy, the Baba Aladura is never open to women - even the name (Baba means Father) indicates that is a position that is only open to men. Wakahiu and Salvaterra argue that, leadership development activities may be necessary to enhance the competencies of women in positions of authority; they show that in the case of these three women, the training was invaluable to their continued effectiveness as leaders of faith-based institutions. [...]expanding the notion of 'stained glass ceiling' beyond the church and back to other organizational contexts, E Anne Christo-Baker, Cynthia Roberts and Christabel Rogalin provide a conceptual and theoretical article to close out the special issue. Because effective leadership is contextually and culturally dependent, they construct a discourse on the interaction of leadership, gender, race, and ethnicity.