ABSTRACT
Women leaders are caught in a tangled web as they mediate and negotiate their own roles and institutional authority. Both their male and female colleagues carry contradictory expectations about how women ought to lead and manage. This chapter traverses dangerous terrain as I expose ways in which women leaders do not act in positive and self-affirming ways. This chapter looks beyond blaming women as the problem but asks more serious questions about the problems of leadership and whether the complexities of women’s lives as leaders can be fully understood. Drawing out these complexities, I narrate the experiences of Indigenous women and the dangerous terrain they occupy.
