Role theories examine how individual behavior is shaped by prevailing social roles and
provide insights into how behavior is perceived by others in light of such roles. Current …

Despite important advances, gender-based discrimination continues to hinder women's
career progress. This review examines the role that gender stereotypes play in promoting …

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 …

Since the 1990s, a growing body of research has sought to quantify the relationship
between women's representation in leadership positions and organizational financial …

Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back
and de-biasing minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Behavioral design offers a …

Research has shown that men tend to emerge as leaders more frequently than women.
However, societal role expectations for both women and leaders have changed in the …

In this article, we provide a wide-ranging review of recent research on leader individual
differences. The review focuses specifically on the explosion of such research in the last …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the most common general metaphors for
women's leadership: the glass ceiling, sticky floor and the labyrinth. The authors discuss the …

The glass cliff refers to the tendency for women to be more likely than men to be appointed
to leadership positions that are risky and precarious. This paper reviews the first decade of …

To understand how motivation to lead (MTL) fits into the broader leadership literature, we
present a meta-analytic review of MTL and test a Distal-Proximal Model of Motivation and …