Female leadership

Interesting interview with Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, this week in the Guardian. She talks about the way that women lead and her hopes that the current generation of female heads of state can model a different kind of female leadership through the Council of Women World Leaders.

"There are two types of women who get into high positions," she says. The first she describes as "very talented" women who do it in a traditional - male - way. "A lot of women in business accept that model. But there is also the other model I would very strongly advocate and this is equal to the contribution of men but different, complementary, exciting and innovative."

Tantalisingly she doesn't go into the detail of what that other model looks like. Maybe it's impossible to define. But it's something we're going to be looking at during the consultation day on March 5th. How is women's leadership different to men's?