Gender and the evaluation of leaders: A meta-analysis.

Alice H. Eagly, Mona G. Makhijani, Bruce G. Klonsky·1992·Psychological Bulletin

Abstract

This article reviews research on the evaluation of women and men who occupy leadership roles. In these experiments, the characteristics of leaders other than their sex were field constant, and the sex of the leader was varied. These experiments thus investigated whether people are biased against female leaders and managers. Although this research showed only a small overall tendency for subjects to evaluate female leaders less favorably than male leaders, this tendency was more pronounced under certain circumstances

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Eagly, A. H., Makhijani, M. G., & Klonsky, B. G. (1992). Gender and the evaluation of leaders: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1037//0033-2909.111.1.3

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