Gender, Status, and Leadership

By Cecilia L. Ridgeway. 2001

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Women employed in male-dominated industries: lessons learned from female aircraft pilots, pilots-in-training and mixed-gender flight instructors (2012, background): “There is consistent evidence for an evaluative bias that relates high competence to low likeability in women but not in men (Heilman 2001 ; Ridgeway 2001 ).”
More than meets the eye: The role of subordinates' self-perceptions in leader categorization processes☆ (2011, background): “people are more likely to emerge as leaders, rise to higher leadership positions, and build better relationships with their followers, than others whose attributes align less closely with leader prototypes (Eagly et al., 2002; Engle & Lord, 1997; Epitropaki & Martin, 2005; Heilman, Block, & Lucas, 1”
Leading with their hearts? How gender stereotypes of emotion lead to biased evaluations of female leaders (2016, positive): “Substantial headway has been made in understanding the structural and psychological barriers that women face in achieving and retaining leadership positions (Eagly & Carli, 2007; Eagly & Karau, 2002; Heilman & Eagly, 2008; Ridgeway, 2001).”
Men Set Their Own Cites High: Gender and Self-citation across Fields and over Time (2016, background): “heir accomplishments and greater social sanctions against women who self-promote – are related. Status beliefs about gender shape men’s and women’s behavior and expectations of themselves and others (Ridgeway 2001, 2014). Because women are perceived as lower status, they are often evaluated more neg”
Managers’ Political Beliefs and Gender Inequality among Subordinates: Does His Ideology Matter More Than Hers? (2018, positive): “First, liberal managers are more likely to hold nontraditional beliefs about gender roles and gender stereotypes (Bolzendahl and Myers, 2004; Davis and Greenstein, 2009), making them less likely to believe that women lack the temperament needed to succeed in leadership roles and less likely to belie”
Bad Apples, Bad Barrels, and Broken Followers? An Empirical Examination of Contextual Influences on Follower Perceptions and Reactions to Aversive Leadership (2011, background): “Drawing from research on women and leadership, it is widely accepted that female leaders are perceived differently from male leaders (Boldry, Wood, & Kashy, 2001; Ridgeway, 2001; Eagly & Karau, 2002; Burke, Stets, & Cerven, 2007).”
Sexism in online video games: The role of conformity to masculine norms and social dominance orientation (2014, background): “When women violate this expectation and behave assertively, others question the legitimacy of this behavior because of women’s low status (Ridgeway, 2001; Ridgeway & Bourg, 2004).”
Is Man the Measure of All Things? A Social Cognitive Account of Androcentrism (2018, background): “Several social status models argue that masculine attributes such as agency are prioritized over feminine ones because of men’s greater social status (Ridgeway, 2001; Rosenkrantz, Vogel, Bee, Broverman, & Broverman, 1968).”
Social incentives for gender differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations: Sometimes it does hurt to ask (2007, positive): “, warmth, kindness, sensitivity to the needs of others), which are emblematic of their subordinate status and therefore not fully compatible with all aspects of the masculine personality type (Jackman, 1994; Prentice & Carranza, 2002; Ridgeway, 2001a; Rudman & Glick, 2001).”