This contribution reviews work on the queen bee phenomenon whereby women leaders
assimilate into male-dominated organizations (ie, organizations in which most executive …

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 …

We propose that a key reason why the workplace gender revolution has stalled (England,
2010) is that work remains the site of masculinity contests among men. In this article, we …

When Prabhakar invited me to do a Book Review and shared the topic 'Research and its
applications in HR'as the core theme for this edition of the Journal, I could straight away …

This paper focuses on the workplace consequences of both descriptive gender stereotypes
(designating what women and men are like) and prescriptive gender stereotypes …

Fifteen years ago, the British Journal of Social Psychology published a set of studies on
male and female academics, documenting that female faculty members were more likely …

We seek to help solve the puzzle of why top-level leaders are disproportionately White men.
We suggest that this race-and sex-based status and power gap persists, in part, because …

We investigate the effect of female leadership on gender differences in public and private
organizations. Female leadership impact was constructed using a quasi-experiment …

In an attempt to explain why the gender gap in leadership positions persists, we propose a
model centered on legitimacy. When women hold powerful positions, they have a harder …

Purpose This study aims to undertake an in-depth analysis of glass ceiling literature and
suggest some directions for future research. Design/methodology/approach A systematic …