Women and leadership: Gender barriers to senior management positions

Lessons learned from women in leadership positions

BACKGROUND Eileen Elias has decades of experience in leadership positions within government and nongovernmental organizations. As the first female Commissioner for Mental Health in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the US in the early 1990s, Elias gained experience on navigating gender-based challenges to attain recognized performance outcomes. OBJECTIVE From lessons learned from women le...

What is one Strategy for Increasing the Number of Women in Senior Management and Executive Positions?

Question: What is one strategy for increasing the number of women in senior management and executive positions? What are considerations when implementing this strategy?

Tenure Track Policy Increases Representation of Women in Senior Academic Positions, but Is Insufficient to Achieve Gender Balance

Underrepresentation of women in senior positions is a persistent problem in universities worldwide, and a wide range of strategies to combat this situation is currently being contemplated. One such strategy is the introduction of a tenure track system, in which decisions to promote scientific staff to higher ranks are guided by a set of explicit and transparent criteria, as opposed to earlier s...

The Gender Composition of Establishments' Workforces and Gender Gaps in Wages and Leadership Positions

Women's access to managerial positions: an experimental study of leadership styles and gender.

This study attempts to test one of the explanations of the scarce representation of women in managerial positions, specifically the one advanced by "role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders" (Eagly & Karau, 2002), which appeals to the fact that women get unfavorable evaluations if they adopt male-stereotypical leadership styles. One-hundred and thirty-six undergraduate students ...