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Women in Leadership Unique Insights Compared to Men

Name: Women in Leadership Unique Insights Compared to Men
Uploaded: 2024-10-14T10:15:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 13 s
Channel: Tina Corner Stolz
Description: In a brief interview, Speaker A asks Speaker B about differences observed when focusing on women in leadership versus predominantly male CEO groups…

14 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In a brief interview, Speaker A asks Speaker B about differences observed when focusing on women in leadership versus predominantly male CEO groups. Speaker B explains that women are received differently: the traits commonly associated with successful leadership—assertiveness, decisiveness, stress tolerance—align with male stereotypes, while women are expected to be collaborative, harmonious, and peacemaking. This creates a mismatch between how women are evaluated and the leadership qualities valued. Moreover, as women ascend to CEO positions, they face a statistically significant likeability penalty, becoming less liked compared to their male counterparts.

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When you started out with focusing then on women, women in leadership and doing these groups, did you find any nuances compared to the CEO groups you ran that were mostly men?
One of the things that women struggle with is that they are received differently than men. So for example, if I were to ask you what makes a successful leader, you might say assertive, decisive, handles stress well. And those things kind of line up with how we see men. Women, there's a bit of a mismatch there. We want women to be leaders, but we really want them to be collaborative and harmonizers and peacemakers. And so what we see in a woman many times is out of sync. The further up an organization a woman moves up to CEO level, the less likeable she can become at a statistically significant level.