Author(s): Dr. Thabet Ihsan Ahmed, Buthaina Hussein Ali and Dr. Dhamia Ali Abdullah

Abstract:
The aim of the research is to identify the characteristics of women’s leadership level and their dimensions, the reality challenges level and their dimensions, the relationship and percentage of the contribution of women’s leadership characteristics and their dimensions to the reality challenges from the viewpoint of the administrative bodies’ members of some women’s sports clubs in Iraq. To achieve the research objectives, the researchers used the women's leadership characteristics questionnaire prepared by (Al-Dulaimi, 2016) and the reality challenges questionnaire prepared by (Muhammad, 2017). The questionnaire consists of five dimensions of women's leadership characteristics (empathy, cooperation, patience, intuition, and composure). The reality challenges questionnaire consisted of three dimensions (organizational frameworks, community challenges, and personal preparations), and then their face validity and stability were verified. The research sample included women members in the administrative bodies of some women's sports clubs in Iraq, who numbered (30) members. In processing the data statistically, the percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, alpha coefficient, chi-square (χ2), and simple regression coefficient were used by using the statistical program (SPSS) to analyze the data. The researchers concluded that a very high level of women's leadership characteristics and their dimensions (empathy, cooperation, patience, intuition, composure) emerged. The emergence of varying levels between medium and low of reality’s challenges and their dimensions (organizational frameworks, community challenges, personal preparations) for assuming women's leadership, and the presence of a relationship and contribution percentage with non-significance between the characteristics of women's leadership and its dimensions and the reality challenges for assuming women's leadership for members of the administrative bodies of some women's sports clubs in Iraq.

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