Abstract: Despite the constraints and the negative worldview about women, the world today is witnessing an upsurge of feminine power, influence and productivity. Significant changes have therefore occurred in gender-role and gender based division of labour. This paper examined employees` perception of women leaders in Nigeria private and public organizations. A total of two hundred and fifty participants were used for the study (125 workers from public and 125 workers from private sector). An attitude towards women leader scale was administered into them and scores were analysed using the independent t-test and 2�2 Analysis of variance. Results show that there are negative attitude towards women leaders but there are no significant difference in the attitude of private and public employees towards women leaders. Sex and marital status also predict employees` attitude towards female leaders, with males and married people having a favourable attitude towards women leaders. Findings were discussed in the light of previous findings in the literature