| Summary: | Although the term of women leadership sound familiar due to its significance on achieving gender equality in all nations, however lack of evidence was found on this domain particularly in the context of Malaysia. Following that, this research aims to examine the associations between personality, work-life balance (WLB) and emotional intelligence (EI) towards women leadership, specifically in the Malaysian manufacturing-based industry. A total of 391 out of 1846 engineers from the Malaysian manufacturing-based companies filled out questionnaires. SPSS was used to analyse the associations between all variables. Also, the mean for all variables were reported in this research. Specifically, a high mean indication with µ=4.02 for women leadership; µ=3.96 for personality; µ=3.85 for WLB; and µ=4.10 for EI were revealed based on this research. Next, Pearson correlation results presented the highest association between WLB and women leadership (r = .737, p = .000); followed by personality (r = .724, p = .000); and EI (r = .722, p = .000). This research added new information to the existing literature by empirically tested the role of personality, WLB and EI on women leadership. Thus, by nurturing the proven indicators of polishing the women engineers to be leaders in the manufacturing-based companies, the goal of gender equality for the country was expected can be achieved. © 2024 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.
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