As the number of women in management roles increases and organizations place a greater
emphasis on diversity, a subsequent change in perceptions of women as leader‐like is …

In two studies, we investigated implicit gender stereotypes of successful managers. Using an
adaptation of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) named the Successful Manager IAT (SM-IAT) …

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 …

This study explored possible underpinnings of findings from earlier research in which
women's overall leadership competence was less favorably evaluated than men's. The …

Purpose–A major barrier to women's progress in management worldwide continues to be
the gender stereotyping of the managerial position. The purpose of the paper is to examine …

Women make up about half of the US workforce but fewer than 15% of corporate officers and
5% of CEOs. Much popular discussion about this disparity focuses on unconscious bias …

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 …

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

Women have historically been underrepresented in leadership positions across private and
public organizations around the globe. Gender inequality and gender discrimination remain …

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 …