Although women in the United States make up about half of the workforce, only 14.6% of
executive officer positions in the Fortune 500 and 16.9% of Fortune 500 board of director …

Journalists and authors of trade books increasingly assert a female advantage in leadership,
whereby women are more likely than men to lead in a style that is effective under …

Style isn't women's problem. The most recent research on gender in leadership indicates
that while women tend to adopt different leadership styles than men, they are rated to be just …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to empirically explore the perceptions of leader
effectiveness and preference on gender and leadership style. Design/methodology …

Women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions. This underrepresentation
is at least partly driven by gender stereotypes that associate men, but not women, with …

Despite the proliferation of leadership research in the past 75 years, investigating the ways
in which women and men leaders enact and experience leadership continues to surface …

Condoleezza Rice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Meg Whitman have become familiar names–
women in prominent leadership positions whose photographs appear regularly in …

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

Previous research has demonstrated that social stereotypes associated with women's
gender can preclude them from leadership positions. It remains unclear whether these …

Since the 1970s, women have steadily emerged in leadership roles in all societal spheres.
Women bring to the exercise of leadership an arsenal of strengths, which increasingly are …