Female first, leader second? Gender bias in the encoding of leadership behavior

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 230-242

  Scott, Kristyn A ^a   Brown, Douglas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Encoding; Gender bias; Leadership; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750736366     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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