“…The effect of the double bind in women’s leadership, meaning that women are simultaneously expected to be feminine as women and masculine as leaders, can negatively impact their leadership opportunities (Hu et al , 2022). As asserted by several scholars (Trumpy and Elliott, 2019; Banu-Lawrence et al , 2020; Hu et al , 2022; Perriton, 2022), women are often expected to meet competing expectations. On one hand, women are expected to show authority, agency, assertiveness, dominance, rationality and instrumentality to be perceived as effective leaders (Trumpy and Elliott, 2019; Hu et al , 2022).…”