Healthcare workers are overwhelmingly women, but few are in positions of leadership. We hear from Sheila Davis, who became a nurse in the 1980s and is now CEO of Partners In Health.

She talks about decision making and leading a team through the coronavirus crisis, as well as what she and her organization are doing to help fix the gender imbalance in healthcare leadership.

Our HBR reading list:

• “How Women Manage the Gendered Norms of Leadership,” by Wei Zheng et al.
• “Fixing the Gender Imbalance in Health Care Leadership,” by Lisa S. Rotenstein, MD
• “7 Leadership Lessons Men Can Learn from Women,” by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Cindy Gallop
• “How to Talk to Your Team When the Future Is Uncertain,” by Rebecca Knight

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