The gender leadership gap: insights from experiments

Eckel, Catherine C.; Gangadharan, Lata; Grossman, Philip J.; Xue, Nina

doi:10.4337/9781789909852.00014

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“…Scholars also argue that male managers exhibit a higher degree of risk-taking, competitiveness, and growth-orientation than female managers, which encourages them to be more innovative based on their performance relative to others (Eckel et al 2021;Sexton and Bowman-Upton 1990). Female managers, in contrast, tend to place less value on money and growth in the market because they view success as having control over their organizations (Cromie 1987).…”

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“…A glass ceiling often exists for women in their career development in organizations, and women find it more difficult to be promoted to top-manager positions than men. Female managers may feel they need to do a better job to compete with their male peers, and this pressure may lead them to take more risks and be innovative (Eckel et al 2021).…”

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“…This socialization process can lead female managers to mimic what male managers do in order to succeed in their careers (Eagly 2007;Nielsen 2015). Self-selection mechanisms can also minimize gender differences at the management-level (Eckel et al 2021). Individuals attracted to management positions are likely to share certain characteristics, such as ambition, competitiveness, or public service motivation.…”

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Gender differences in performance-driven managerial innovation: evidence from US nursing homes

Cheon

Song

Meier

2021

International Public Management Journal

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The management literature has highlighted the role of a manager's gender in adopting and practicing managerial innovation. The conditions that affect female (or male) managers' decision making on innovations, however, have been less explored. Using a national survey of top-level administrators in US nursing homes and archival nursing home quality data, this study examines how performance information shapes gender differences in managerial innovation adoption. We find that female managers are more likely to adopt innovations relative to male managers, particularly when they perform better than they have in past years.Our findings, however, do not support a gender difference in innovation adoption when a nursing home performs worse than other competing organizations. The findings provide important implications on how a manager's gender produces systematic differences in innovation adoption related to performance information.

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Gender differences in performance-driven managerial innovation: evidence from US nursing homes

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Meier

2021

International Public Management Journal

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“…The low representation of women in leadership positions can be caused by several factors including differences in productivity, differences in preferences and psychological attitudes and by gender discrimination (see Eckel et al 2020 for a review). Women might behave or share preferences and stereotypes that might affect their ability to lead and, consequently, their probability of being selected as leaders.…”

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Female leadership: Effectiveness and perception

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Gioia²,

Scoppa³

2022

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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“…1Other experimental research has tested for gender effects in a wide variety of domains. See Eckel and Grossman (2008), Niederle (2015), and Eckel et al (2021) for a review of the experimental literature on gender differences.…”

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Knowing the Competition: Gender, Qualifications, and Willingness to Run in Elections

Fox

Pate

2022

Political Research Quarterly

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In spite of significant gains in recent elections, women’s under-representation in U.S. politics remains an empirical fact. Scholars have identified the persistent gender gap in political ambition as a key component. Research to date has focused on explaining the gender gap in political ambition by identifying gender differences in factors such as self-assessed qualifications, recruitment experiences, risk aversion, and competitiveness. The conventional wisdom emerged that because of these gender differences, potential women candidates need more encouragement than men to overcome reservations about running for office. These propositions remain largely untested. Using an innovative experimental design that allows us to directly examine how individuals respond to information about candidate qualifications in real time, we make several substantive contributions to understanding the role of gender in the decision to run for office. First, we find that women are highly responsive to information about their qualifications to run for office, in some cases more so than their male counterparts. In doing so, we shine a spotlight on how men often ignore information about their own unsuitability to run for office. We also find that being presented with multiple chances to run for election has a positive, but limited effect on women’s political ambition.

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The gender leadership gap: insights from experiments

Cited by 9 publications

References 81 publications

Gender differences in performance-driven managerial innovation: evidence from US nursing homes

Gender differences in performance-driven managerial innovation: evidence from US nursing homes

Female leadership: Effectiveness and perception

Knowing the Competition: Gender, Qualifications, and Willingness to Run in Elections

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