We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less successful than males in persuading followers to...

Economic research on gender gaps in preferences and economic outcomes has focused on variation with respect to sex-a binary classification as either a "man" or "woman." We validate a novel and simple measure of self-reported continuous gender identity (CGI) and explore whether gender identity...