The impact of a leader model on high dominant women's self-selection for leadership

Sex Roles

Volumn 58, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 776-783

  Carbonell, Joyce L ^a   Castro, Yessenia ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CPI; Gender and leadership; Leader emergence; Leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249164315     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-008-9411-9     Document Type: Article

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