Purpose - This paper investigates the perceptions of female middle-level managers in relation to the influence role models have on their career progression in order to more fully comprehend the under-representation of women at the highest organisational levels. Methodology/Approach - This paper...

This study investigates the importance of gender role attitudes for the labour supply decisions of couples. To account for the interdependence between partners, categorical labour supply models are applied to 2004 and 2014 data of the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). In addition to the standard...

In many developing countries, agricultural extension services are generally biased towards men, with information targeted mainly to male members of a farming household and in formats that are rarely tailored to female members. Nevertheless, female farmers may also benefit from such services as...

The present study is an attempt to study the attribution patterns of employees toward descriptions of leaders in a female congenial workplace. 100 preschool teachers employed at various playschools located in Vadodara city served as sample for the study. The sample respondents completed a...

This paper examines the impact of counter-stereotypical female role models on women's labor supply and occupational choices. Using hand-collected data from Gallup surveys that cover a long time series, we create a direct measure of counter-stereotypical female role models based on the fraction...

This study shows that female role model encourages women-led firms to apply for a credit. Employing a sample of of 29,157 firms from 112 countries between 2009 and 2020, our results indicate that the exposure to a female political leader offsets the likelihood for woman-led firms to be...