The unbearable heaviness of leadership: The effects of competency, negatives, and experience on women's aspirations to leadership

Carol M. Sánchez and Kevin Lehnert

Journal of Business Research, 2019, vol. 95, issue C, 182-194

Abstract: Competent women should aspire to leadership, but they may choose not to. We asked men and women at seven U.S. universities if competence, negatives of leadership, and experience affect their aspirations to leadership. Surprisingly, competent women with more work experience are less likely to aspire to leadership than men, while competent women with less work experience are more likely to aspire to leadership than men. The more women associate leadership with negative aspects, the less they aspire to leadership, compared with men. For both, the less competent they think they are to be leaders, the less they want to be leaders.

Keywords: Gender; Leadership; Stereotype; Career socialization; Sex discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.10.033

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