In the conditions of total social transformations and transformations in Ukraine, a situation of uncertainty and instability, external and internal challenges facing our state and its citizens, the problem of volunteering as an organized altruistic activity, in which a consolidating organizing role is played by women a leader whose personality is defined by such personal qualities as authority, the ability to organize and lead, the ability to make decisions in extreme situations and take responsibility for their results and consequences, mobility, openness, decisiveness, sociability. The article summarizes the approaches to defining the phenomena of «leadership», «volunteering», defines the functional features of the volunteer movement in Ukraine in the conditions of a full-scale invasion and martial law, outlines the role and features of the development and realization of the potential of a female leader in volunteer activities
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