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What style of leadership do women in STEM fields perform? Findings from an international survey

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posted on 2023-05-19, 12:29 authored by Meredith NashMeredith Nash, Davies, A, Robyn MooreRobyn Moore
It is widely acknowledged that women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields are underrepresented in leadership globally. However, little is known about how leadership styles of women in STEMM relate to this underrepresentation. This article discusses findings from a survey examining how 61 women in STEMM define leadership and describe their own leadership styles. Using content analysis and drawing on Full Range Leadership Model factors, findings suggest that women define leadership and describe their own leadership styles using transformational factors. However, there was no consistency in how participants defined ideal leadership or how they defined their own leadership styles. This finding unsettles ideas of distinctly gendered leadership styles. We argue that expectations that leadership will be performed in distinctly gendered styles may be contributing to the underrepresentation of women in leadership roles in STEMM.

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Publication title

PLoS One

Volume

12

Issue

10

Article number

e0185727

Number

e0185727

Pagination

1-16

ISSN

1932-6203

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Public Library of Science

Place of publication

United States

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Copyright 2017 Nash et al. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Expanding knowledge in human society

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