Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams

Christopher F. Karpowitz, Stephen D. O’Connell, Jessica Preece and Olga Stoddard

Journal of Political Economy, 2024, vol. 132, issue 9, 3077 - 3114

Abstract: This article studies the effect of team gender composition and leadership on women’s influence in two field experiments. Study 1 finds that male-majority teams accord disproportionately less influence to women and are less likely to choose women to represent the team externally. We replicate this finding in a new context, where we also vary the gender of an assigned team leader. We find that a female leader substantially increases women’s influence, even in male-majority teams. With a model of discriminatory voting, we show that either increasing women's share or assigning a female leader decreases the penalty women face by more than 50%.

Date: 2024
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