The female leadership advantage: An evaluation of the evidence

The communality-bonus effect for male transformational leaders – leadership style, gender, and promotability

“…In making these predictions, our work challenges the assumption that a transformational leadership style confers particular benefits to female leaders (Eagly & Carli, 2003). Our work also extends knowledge on the factors influencing career success by shifting the focus from leadership outcomes for organizations or followers to leaders' personal career gains.…”

“…We set out to test how men and women are evaluated in terms of leadership effectiveness and promotability when they show leadership styles that are in line with or violate gender stereotypical expectations. We focus on transformational leadership, a style predominantly characterized by communal behaviours in line with expectations about women (Eagly & Carli, 2003), compared with autocratic leadership, a style characterized by agentic behaviours in line with expectations about men (Judge, Piccolo, & Ilies, 2004).…”

A Cross-Level Examination of the Process Linking Transformational Leadership and Creativity: The Role of Psychological Safety Climate

“…Finally, we controlled the gender of the supervisor as the leadership literature has suggested that leader's gender may influence leadership styles and the effectiveness of leadership (Eagly & Carli, 2003;Eagly, Johannesen-Schmidt, & van Engen, 2003). Similarly, a dummy variable was created for supervisor gender.…”

Uncovering the role of emotional abilities in leadership emergence. A longitudinal analysis of leadership networks

“…Previous research has repeatedly confirmed that men tend to emerge as leaders when an activity is taskoriented whereas women emerge as leaders when it is socially-oriented (Eagly and Carly, 2003).…”