XPERTS ON nursing leadership" have argued that the lack of nursing leaders is due to a
lack of persons with initiative, self-esteem, and assertiveness in the nursing profession. In
this article it is argued that the style of leadership within nursing has evolved because
nurses, like other groups throughout history, are an oppressed group, which is controlled by
societal forces that have determined its leadership behavior. An understanding of the
dynamics underlying leadership of an oppressed group is important if strategy to develop …