Gender Stereotypes and the Attribution of Leadership Traits: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

By Sabine Sczesny, J. Bosak, Daniel F. Neff, B. Schyns. 2004

191 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Communication

1. Paul Westhead
2. M. Solesvik
3. J. Bono
4. Emily E. Duehr
5. Timnit Gebru
6. Emily M. Bender

In Gender Studies

1. J. Bono
2. Emily E. Duehr
3. J. Bosak
4. Sabine Sczesny
5. Paul Westhead
6. M. Solesvik
7. L. Horvath

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. J. Bono
2. Emily E. Duehr
3. Paul Westhead
4. M. Solesvik
5. J. Bosak
6. Sabine Sczesny
7. T. Judge
8. Fred Walumbwa

Citations in the corpus

• Gender Bias in Leader Selection? Evidence from a Hiring Simulation Study (2011, result): “... (Sczesny 2003b )g enderstereotypical beliefs showed that without role information, women in accordance with gender stereotypes were judged as less agentic than men and leaders in general; however, additional research by Sczesny and colleagues showed that female leaders were judged as agentic as ”
• The Role of Gender Stereotypes in U.S. Senate Campaigns (2009, background): “These stereotypes lead people to view men as aggressive, forceful, and independent, whereas women are seen as kind, helpful, sympathetic, and passive (Banaji, Hardin and Rothman 1993; Diekman and Eagly 2000; Sczesny et al. 2004).”
• Entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: Do female students benefit? (2016, methodology): “Following insights from SLS theory, gender stereotypes are descriptive (i.e. the characteristics relating to how men and women are) or prescriptive (i.e. how men and women should be; Schein, 1973, 1975; Sczesny et al., 2004).”
• MEN, WOMEN, AND MANAGERS: ARE STEREOTYPES FINALLY CHANGING? (2006, methodology): “The labels have frequently been used interchangeably in research (e.g., Eagly & Johnson, 1990; Sczesny et al., 2004).”
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 (2021, background): “But, of course, protected attributes aren’t the only identity characteristics that can be subject to bias or discrimination, and the salient identity characteristics and expressions of bias are also culture-bound [46, 116].”
• Am I the Right Candidate? Self-Ascribed Fit of Women and Men to a Leadership Position (2008, background): “…janine.bosak@psy.unibe.ch Nevertheless, recent research indicates a decrease of gender differences in self-descriptions in communal and agentic traits that is primarily caused by an increase in women’s self-reports of agentic traits (e.g., Sczesny 2003; Sczesny et al. 2004; Twenge 1997, 2001).”