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Women’s participation in entrepreneurial and political leadership: The importance of culturally endorsed implicit leadership theories

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: This paper explores how globally endorsed leadership behaviors affect women’s involvement in leadership by empirically examining the impact of Project GLOBE’s culturally endorsed implicit leadership theories on a sample of female business and political leaders. The study examines two continuous dependent variables provided by the World Bank: Female Seats in National Parliaments (%) and Self-employed Females (% of Total Self-employment). Regression analysis was used to test the viability of the culturally endorsed implicit leadership theories as possible predictors of women’s participation in leadership. The results indicate that charismatic leadership and self-protective leadership are predictors of women’s leadership participation but in different ways; the former has a positive effect for participation in both leadership (political and business) contexts and the latter has a negative effect only on political leadership participation.

Source: Leadership

DOI: 10.1177/1742715013504427

Authors: Amanda Bullough, Mary Sully de Luque

Language: English

Topic: Gender Diversity and Inequality

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

Funders: World Bank Group, Florida International University, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

OpenAlex ID: W2135303852

FWCI: 6.887

Cites: 89

Cited by: 41

Related to: 10