She’s Got the Look: Inferences from Female Chief Executive Officers’ Faces Predict their Success

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Race matters for women leaders: Intersectional effects on agentic deficiencies and penalties (2016, background): “For more than four decades, substantial advances have been made in the study of gender and leadership, from Schein's (1973) seminal “think manager–think male” paradigm (demonstrating greater correspondence between managerial characteristics and men rather than women) to Heilman's (1983) lack-of-fit ”
Body weight, not facial width-to-height ratio, predicts aggression in pro hockey players (2012, background): “One is demonstrations that facial perceptions of competence and leadership in chief executive officers (CEOs) predict the profitability of the world’s leading corporations (e.g., Rule & Ambady, 2009).”
Social attributions from faces: determinants, consequences, accuracy, and functional significance. (2015, background): “Or consider the hypothesis that CEOs who look more competent are actually more effective at their job, as suggested by the fact that the companies they work for tend to be more profitable (e.g., Rule & Ambady 2008a, 2009).”