Does gender bias against female leaders persist? Quantitative and qualitative data from a large-scale survey

Human Relations

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1555-1578

  Elsesser, Kim M ^a   Lever, Janet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

female bosses; female managers; gender; management; manager evaluations; role congruity theory; stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355182933     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726711424323     Document Type: Article

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