Using data collected from 1984 to 2002 from 2,371 male and 1,768 female middle and
senior managers in the United States, the authors of this article demonstrate not only that …

There has been a considerable increase in the proportion of women managers in recent
years, from 21% in 1976 to 46% in 1999, and a call for “feminine leadership” to capitalize on …

Are women not attaining upper-level positions because of their management style? Are
certain gender-stereotyped traits exhibited in management styles? Frequently, women …

The relationship between sex role stereotypes and characteristics perceived as necessary
for management success was examined among 497 male and 328 female management …

One of the popular reasons given for differential treatment of women in management stems
from stereotyping females as ineffective leaders. Thirty-two female leadership studies were …

The relationship between sex role stereotypes and characteristics perceived as necessary
for management success was examined among male and female undergraduate …

ABSTRACT THETOPIC OF GENDER DIFFERENCES in leadership style has been of great
interest to researchers in the fields of psychology, management, and sociology, especially in …

Despite an increase in the number of womenmanagers, women frequently have difficulty
advancing toupper levels of management. Researchers such as VE Schein [(1973),“The …

Executive Overview There has been a dramatic change in the “face” of management over
the last two decades. That face is now female more than one-third of the time. What are the …

Studies of how managerial women are perceived in the workplace, as compared with men,
have been concerned mostly with entry and middle levels of management. Surprisingly, little …