Gender and Leadership in Organisations: the Threat of Backlash

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chakraborty, Priyanka; Serra, Danila
• 署名单位: Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uead110
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1401-1430
• 关键词: negative-evaluation-scale; brief-fear; field experiment; sex-differences; labor-market; COMPETITION; BIAS; personality; feedback; QUALITY

摘要

Decisions made by leaders please some people and upset others. We examine whether the possibility of backlash has a differential impact on men's and women's self-selection into leadership roles, and their decisions as leaders. In a laboratory experiment that simulates corporate decision-making, we find that women are significantly less likely to self-select into a leadership position when they can receive backlash. Once in a leadership role, women get more backlash. There are some gender differences in leaders' decision-making and communication styles under the threat of backlash, but little difference in final outcomes. An online experiment sheds light on possible mechanisms.