Gender and willingness to lead: Does the gender composition of teams matter?
(2022) In The Review of Economics and Statistics 104(2). p.259-259- Abstract
- We explore how team gender composition affects willingness to lead by randomly assigning participants in an experiment to male- or female-majority teams. Irrespective of team gender composition, men are substantially more willing than women to lead their team. The pooled sample, and women separately, are more willing to lead female- than male-majority teams. An analysis of mechanisms reveals that a large share of the negative effect of male-majority teams on women's leadership aspirations is accounted for by a negative effect on women's confidence, influence, and expected support from team members.
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- Born, Andreas ; Ranehill, Eva LU and Sandberg, Anna
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- leadership, experiment, gender differences
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- The Review of Economics and Statistics
- volume
- 104
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 275 pages
- publisher
- MIT Press
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- scopus:85126000124
- ISSN
- 0034-6535
- DOI
- 10.1162/rest_a_00955
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 072df7ee-8939-4b1b-865b-6df58a384cd3
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keywords = {{leadership; experiment; gender differences}},
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publisher = {{MIT Press}},
series = {{The Review of Economics and Statistics}},
title = {{Gender and willingness to lead: Does the gender composition of teams matter?}},
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doi = {{10.1162/rest_a_00955}},
volume = {{104}},
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