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Along with social environment changing and family business developing rapidly,
as well as females themselves having management predominance, more and more
females start to participate in business management. Because of their feminine sex
characteristics and multiple roles, the feminine clan members face a series of
predicaments and conflicts in their yearn to inherit a family business. Based on such a
background, the author offers a tentative study on the cultivation of female successors
in the family enterprise. This thesis comprehensively presents the basic theories in the
areas of the family business and researches on the females aspiring to be leadership
heirs. The paper lays a foundation for further discussion by presenting the definition
of the family business and reviewing previous studies on female successors. The
study also presents the dilemmas of females, such as sex discrimination; sex-role
conflict; psychological conflict. Then from sociocultural, biological and psychological
scopes, the paper analyses reasons why females are in a dilemma. This study also
provides the prerequisites to help the female member in the family business get rid of
the difficulties on their journey to become leadership heirs. The paper additionally
proposes some countermeasures to conquer the obstacles faced by female successors.
First, female successors should exert sex predominance, which integrates business
characteristics to form her unique management. The second ideology and culture of
the female in society should be updated. The society should create equality in the
cultural atmosphere for women and men so as to realize that all genders take on the
responsibility equally and create a good social environment for female members of
the family business. Thirdly, female successors should improve their abilities. They
can work from the grassroots level. They should learn to build their authority in the
enterprise. Finally, this paper displays the management predominance and dilemma of
female members in the Chinese family business by the analysis of Wantong Group's
daughter inheriting his father's business case. Based on it, the paper gives the
corresponding enlightenments which can help a family firm feminine member
improve. The researcher hopes that through such an analysis, the paper could offer
some implications and enlightenment for the cultivation of female successors. The
researcher also expected that it could elicit more studies in this field.