When are women willing to lead? The effect of team gender composition and gendered tasks
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Title
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When are women willing to lead? The effect of team gender composition and gendered tasks
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Creator
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Chen, Jingnan
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Date
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2020-07-01T20:33:19Z
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Abstract
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It is a well-documented phenomenon that a group's gender composition can impact group performance. Understanding why and how this phenomenon happens is a prominent puzzle in the literature. To shed light on this puzzle, we propose and experimentally test one novel theory: through the salience of gender stereotype, a group's gender composition affects a person's willingness to lead a group, thereby impacting the group's overall performance. By randomly assigning people to groups with varying gender compositions, we find that women in mixed-gender groups are twice as likely as women in single-gender groups to suffer from the gender stereotype effect, by shying away from leadership in areas that are gender-incongruent. Further, we provide evidence that the gender stereotype effect persists even for women in single-gender groups. Importantly, however, we find that public feedback about a capable woman's performance significantly increases her willingness to lead. This result holds even in male-stereotyped environments.
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Publisher
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John Antonakis; Elsevier Inc.
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Is Part Of
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The Leadership Quarterly. Volume 30, Issue 6, December 2019, 101340
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Subject
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Gender Diversity
Diversidad de Genero
MBA600
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Type
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Article
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Date Available
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2020-07-01T20:33:19Z
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Date Issued
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2019
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Identifier
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1048-9843
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Language
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Eng.
