“…In particular, when gender is the category of interpersonal similarity, higher levels of trust are found among individuals of the same gender (Levin, Whitener, & Cross, 2006; Spector & Jones, 2004), and organizational communication research finds that employees have more trust in a leader's abilities and interpersonal exchanges when the leader is of the same gender (Berkovich, 2018). Additionally, gender similarity is a strong predictor of performance (Tsui & O'Reilly III, 1989) because it builds trust, enhances social support, increases the willingness of employees to help one another, and facilitates the attainment of collective goals (Chen Yi‐Feng, Huang, & Tjosvold, 2008). Even further, women are generally perceived as more trustworthy than men (Spector & Jones, 2004), and their communication often reflects their willingness to share resources (Douglas, 2012; Xie et al, 2020).…”