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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.

Perceptions of Legitimacy: The Sex of the Legal Messenger and Reactions to Sexual Harassment Training

Sexual harassment training has varying effects on men’s perceptions of women’s competence, status, and likability—depending on whether the training is led by a woman or a man.

Justine Tinkler, Skylar Gremillion, Kira Arthurs (2015)

Failure Is Not An Option For Black Women: Effects Of Organizational Performance On Leaders With Single Versus Dual-Subordinate Identities

When an organization is failing, Black women leaders are evaluated more negatively than Black men, white women or white men.

Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, Robert W. Livingston (2012)

Fix the Game – Not the Dame: A Team Intervention for Gender Equality in Leadership

In majority male teams, both male and female team members rated male leaders as more exemplary than female leaders, but this effect was eliminated in more gender-balanced teams.

Jamie Lee Gloor, Manuela C. Morf, Samantha Paustian-Underdahl, Uschi Backes-Gellner (2018)

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)

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Leadership

Failure Is Not An Option For Black Women: Effects Of Organizational Performance On Leaders With Single Versus Dual-Subordinate Identities

When an organization is failing, Black women leaders are evaluated more negatively than Black men, white women or white men.

Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, Robert W. Livingston (2012)

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)

Perceptions of Legitimacy: The Sex of the Legal Messenger and Reactions to Sexual Harassment Training

Sexual harassment training has varying effects on men’s perceptions of women’s competence, status, and likability—depending on whether the training is led by a woman or a man.

Justine Tinkler, Skylar Gremillion, Kira Arthurs (2015)

Fix the Game – Not the Dame: A Team Intervention for Gender Equality in Leadership

In majority male teams, both male and female team members rated male leaders as more exemplary than female leaders, but this effect was eliminated in more gender-balanced teams.

Jamie Lee Gloor, Manuela C. Morf, Samantha Paustian-Underdahl, Uschi Backes-Gellner (2018)

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)

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