
## Metadata
- Authors: [[Alice h. eagly|Alice H]], [[steven-j.-karau|Steven J]], [[mona-g.-makhijani|Mona G]]
- Full Title:: Gender and the Effectiveness of Leaders: A Meta-Analysis
- Category:: #🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: [[Sin machirulos hay paraiso. una charla heterofriendly sobre management|Sin Machirulos Hay Paraiso]], [[Sin machirulos hay paraiso. una charla heterofriendly sobre management|Sin Machirulos Hay Paraiso]]
- URL:: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/29424413
- Finished date:: [[2023-01-25]]
## Highlights
- Aggregated over the organizational and laboratory experimental studies in the sample, male and female leaders were equally effective. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqkrwq4w2rq2vw7rgs8nehxn))
- evidence that male leaders were evaluated more fa-
vorably than female leaders but attributed this trend to observ-
ers' biases and stereotyped expectations. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqkrzm932g60y0edbvrx84w6))
- glass ceiling (see A. M. Morrison, White, & Van Velsor,
1987)—would reduce an organization's productivity by remov-
ing a substantial proportion of the available pool of managerial
talent ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqkrynqbwyn66hzmdre6t1c0))
- le. Nonetheless,
women fared poorly in settings in which leadership was defined
in highly masculine terms, especially in military settings. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqks23n95c01awhsegxfz3zp))
- en
fared slightly worse than women in settings in which leadership
was defined in less masculine terms, especially in educational
organizations and in governmental and social service organiza-
tions ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqks2n68f99fz2fp9gjkaw16))
- ect instead suggests that gender role expectations spill
over onto leadership roles within organizations and groups and
produce important consequences for the effectiveness of lead-
ers. The mechanisms by which these consequences are pro-
duced deserve careful scrutiny in primary research. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqks3582pawj3zmqwsqx5x5e))