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Gender and Willingness to Lead: Does the Gender Composition of Teams Matter?

Andreas Born¹; Eva Ranehill²; Anna Sandberg³

¹ Spotify Technology S.A. · ² Gothenburg University · ³ Stockholm University

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.

DOI

10.1162/rest_a_00955

Volume

104 (2)

Pages

259-275

Language

en

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