Comparative Analysis of Personal Characteristics of Business, Academic and Political Female Leadership Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process Method

Abstract

This article aims at stablishing the variables that represent the most important attributes that would be required in women’s performance in the political, business or academic sphere. First of all, according to what literature suggests, a group of 14 variables was taken as a reference, so that, through the opinion of key informants, the set of 6 variables for the prioritization study was defined. Subsequently, from a group of 12 experts, 6 men and 6 women, defined in a similar way as the Delphi technique indicates, the prioritization of the six variables from the point of view of each of the woman’s field of work, was determined (that is, political, business or academic). The technique applied for this prioritization corresponds to the ahp method, using the geometric average criterion for the aggregation of the experts’ individual judgments