Proposal for Special Issue of Leadership Quarterly on Gender and Leadership

摘要

Among researchers across many academic fields, attention to the effects of gender on leadership has escalated in the past twenty years. Web of Knowledge thus reports that the topic identified by combining leader/leadership with gender yielded only 17 published articles in 1990 but 346 articles in 2012. The overriding question addressed by most authors remains why women are not better represented in leader roles. This question can be partitioned into many specific questions concerning, for example, the leadership styles and traits of female and male leaders and prejudicial reactions to female leaders. Researchers in many academic fields have contributed to these and many other topics.