Contesting gender stereotypes stimulates generalized fairness in the selection of leaders

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1025-1039

  Leicht, Carola ^a   Randsley de Moura, Georgina ^b   Crisp, Richard J ^c  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Counter stereotypes; Gender role model; Group prototypicality; Leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924047807     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.05.001     Document Type: Article

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