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Leadership

The rise of women into society's most powerful leadership roles – across sectors and around the globe – ranks among the most profound social transformations of recent decades. Learn strategies on how to best capitalize on women’s talent and leadership in politics, society, and the global economy.

How Stereotypes Impair Women’s Careers in Science

Both male and female employers are less likely to hire women for arithmetic tasks, even though both genders perform equally well. This gap persists even when employers receive information about the candidate’s past performance.

Ernesto Reuben, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales (2014)

Signaling Threat: How Situational Cues Affect Women In Math, Science, And Engineering Settings

When female math, science, and engineering students view situations in which they are the minority, they experience more physiological and cognitive vigilance and a lower sense of belonging.

Mary C. Murphy, Claude M. Steele, James J. Gross (2007)

Female Leaders: Injurious or Inspiring Role Models for Women?

High-level female role models, whose success seems unattainable, negatively affects younger women’s self-perceptions and leadership aspirations; however, mid-level female role models do not.

Crystal L. Hoyt, Stefanie Simon (2011)

Female tokens in high-prestige work groups: Catalysts or inhibitors of group diversification?

When a woman is the only female in a high-prestige work group, she is unlikely to recruit another woman to her team for fear of being outperformed or undervalued, however, she is just as likely to recruit another woman when the high-prestige work group is already majority female.

Michelle Duguid (2011)

No Credit Where Credit Is Due: Attributional Rationalization of Women’s Success in Male-Female Teams

Providing information about male and female employees’ individual contributions to a group task, or information about female employees’ competence in previous tasks, reduces negative assessments about women’s contribution to group work.

Madeline Heilman, Michelle C Haynes-Baratz (2005)

Successful Female Leaders Empower Women's Behavior In Leadership Tasks

Subtle exposure to highly successful female leaders improves women’s performance and self-evaluations in stressful leadership tasks.

Ioana M. Latu, Marianne Schmid Mast, Joris Lammers, Dario Bombari (2013)

Unkind to Two of a Kind: Stereotyping Women with Duo Status in a Work Group

Men evaluate women as contributing less leadership and having fewer skills when there are two women in a group compared to when there are one or three.

Denise Lewin Loyd, Judith B. White, Mary C. Kern (2012)

Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction

Women excel under majority rule when they are the majority; when the minority of a deliberative body, women are more advantaged under unanimous rule.

Tali Mendelberg, Christopher F. Karpowitz, J. Baxter Oliphant (2014)

Path-Breakers: How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Women’s electoral success leads to an increase in female candidacy in subsequent elections.

Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer (2013)

Sex Workers, Stigma and Self-Belief: Evidence from a Psychological Training Program in India

Sex workers who undergo a comprehensive training program focused on improved agency and psychological empowerment exhibit positive changes in self-esteem, outlook, future-orientation, and health and economic behaviors.

Sayantan Ghosal, Smarajit Jana, Anandi Mani, Sandip Mitra, Sanchari Roy (2013)

Topic Overview

Leadership

Signaling Threat: How Situational Cues Affect Women In Math, Science, And Engineering Settings

When female math, science, and engineering students view situations in which they are the minority, they experience more physiological and cognitive vigilance and a lower sense of belonging.

Mary C. Murphy, Claude M. Steele, James J. Gross (2007)

Female tokens in high-prestige work groups: Catalysts or inhibitors of group diversification?

Michelle Duguid (2011)

Successful Female Leaders Empower Women's Behavior In Leadership Tasks

Subtle exposure to highly successful female leaders improves women’s performance and self-evaluations in stressful leadership tasks.

Ioana M. Latu, Marianne Schmid Mast, Joris Lammers, Dario Bombari (2013)

Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction

Women excel under majority rule when they are the majority; when the minority of a deliberative body, women are more advantaged under unanimous rule.

Tali Mendelberg, Christopher F. Karpowitz, J. Baxter Oliphant (2014)

Sex Workers, Stigma and Self-Belief: Evidence from a Psychological Training Program in India

Sayantan Ghosal, Smarajit Jana, Anandi Mani, Sandip Mitra, Sanchari Roy (2013)

How Stereotypes Impair Women’s Careers in Science

Ernesto Reuben, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales (2014)

Female Leaders: Injurious or Inspiring Role Models for Women?

High-level female role models, whose success seems unattainable, negatively affects younger women’s self-perceptions and leadership aspirations; however, mid-level female role models do not.

Crystal L. Hoyt, Stefanie Simon (2011)

No Credit Where Credit Is Due: Attributional Rationalization of Women’s Success in Male-Female Teams

Madeline Heilman, Michelle C Haynes-Baratz (2005)

Unkind to Two of a Kind: Stereotyping Women with Duo Status in a Work Group

Men evaluate women as contributing less leadership and having fewer skills when there are two women in a group compared to when there are one or three.

Denise Lewin Loyd, Judith B. White, Mary C. Kern (2012)

Path-Breakers: How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Women’s electoral success leads to an increase in female candidacy in subsequent elections.

Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer (2013)