• WHY SO FEW WOMEN LEADERS?
• DO MALE AND FEMALE LEADERS BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY?
• HOW IS LEADERSHIP GENDERED?
• FURTHER READING:

Gender and leadership is a subject that is concerned with two main questions: (1) What are the determinants of male/female differences in who assumes leadership positions and in leadership behavior? and (2) How is leadership a gendered concept?

Social scientists distinguish between "gender" and "sex." Sex refers to the basic, biologically given physiological differences between males and females. Gender refers to a culture's social construction of differences between the sexes. These include the different traits, roles, behaviors, attitudes, and aptitudes...