{"id":646,"date":"2008-03-03T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2008-03-03T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:25:00","slug":"when-women-lead-like-well-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/03\/03\/when-women-lead-like-well-women\/","title":{"rendered":"When Women Lead Like, Well, Women…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Last week I put a page <\/a>out to women’s leadership researchers. And my friend Laura Sabbatini over at Catalyst helpfully responded, reminding that their July 2007 report, Double Bind: Damned If You Do, Doomed If You Don’t<\/a>, covers many of these issues. Writes Laura, “Think about the think-leader-think-male stereotype and how men are perceived as ‘natural’ leaders by default. Because men don’t have to prove that they can lead, any ‘communal’\/feminine behavior is considered positively (that is, as an add on) when performed by a man, or definitely more positively than when it is performed by a woman.” The report is available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Laura also sent along a few research articles that have “some good supporting evidence in terms of the same behavior being perceived as different when performed by a man or a woman.” For those seeking to dig deeper, check out:<\/p>\n

-“Role Congruity Theory of Prejudice Toward Female Leaders” by Alice H. Eagly and Steven J. Karau
-“Same Behavior, Different Consequences: Reactions to Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Altruistic Citizenship Behavior” by Madeline E. Heilman and Julie J. Chen <\/p>\n

J.K. Gayle sent along the following, to add to a discussion in which “feminized,” when applied to Obama, becomes coded racially–and, suggests Dr. Helen, perhaps to mean socialism:<\/p>\n

-Over at Rachel’s Tavern – “Serious Question\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6for Everyone About Racial Double Standards”<\/a>
-And at Dr. Helen – ” Is Obama Feminized?”<\/a><\/p>\n

I’d add that Patricia Williams has done some great writing on these topics in her column at The Nation<\/a>. Def worth checking out.<\/p>\n

(Thank you, as always, L and J.K.!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I put a page out to women’s leadership researchers. And my friend Laura Sabbatini over at Catalyst helpfully responded, reminding that their July 2007 report, Double Bind: Damned If You Do, Doomed If You Don’t, covers many of these issues. Writes Laura, “Think about the think-leader-think-male stereotype and how men are perceived as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21929],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-womens-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}