Prejudice Toward Female Leaders: Backlash Effects and Women’s Impression Management Dilemma

106 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

The Gender Pay Gap: Challenging the Rationalizations. Perceived Equity, Discrimination, and the Limits of Human Capital Models (2012, background): “Other researchers have shown that women are evaluated more harshly than men when engaging in directive, authoritative leadership (Eagly et al. 1992; Phelan and Rudman 2010), that women are held to higher standards of both competence and warmth than men (Phelan et al.”
Social stigma and its consequences for the socially stigmatized. (2011, background): “Discrimination often occurs in the hiring and interviewing of stigmatized individuals based on race ⁄ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation (Horvath & Ryan, 2003; Pager & Shepherd, 2008; Phelan & Rudman, 2010).”
Dancing Backwards in High Heels: Female Professors Experience More Work Demands and Special Favor Requests, Particularly from Academically Entitled Students (2018, background): “Consequently, others may scrutinize their behavior more, sometimes resulting in penalties and censures against female leaders who seem Btoo assertive^ or Bnot communal enough^ (Heilman 2001; Phelan 2008; Phelan and Rudman 2010; Rudman et al. 2012).”