Successful female leaders empower women's behavior in leadership tasks

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 444-448

  Latu, Ioana M ^a   Mast, Marianne Schmid ^a   Lammers, Joris ^b   Bombari, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Empowerment; Leadership; Role model; Sex role attitude

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873528953     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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