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Eva Ranehill. Photo.

Eva Ranehill

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Eva Ranehill. Photo.

Gender and willingness to lead: Does the gender composition of teams matter?

Author

  • Andreas Born
  • Eva Ranehill
  • Anna Sandberg

Summary, in English

We explore how team gender composition affects willingness to lead by randomly assigning participants in an experiment to male- or female-majority teams. Irrespective of team gender composition, men are substantially more willing than women to lead their team. The pooled sample, and women separately, are more willing to lead female- than male-majority teams. An analysis of mechanisms reveals that a large share of the negative effect of male-majority teams on women's leadership aspirations is accounted for by a negative effect on women's confidence, influence, and expected support from team members.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics

Publishing year

2022

Language

English

Pages

259-259

Publication/Series

The Review of Economics and Statistics

Volume

104

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

MIT Press

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • leadership
  • experiment
  • gender differences

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0034-6535