IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/globus/v8y2007i2p351-365.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Why Do Few Women Advance to Leadership Positions?

Author

Listed:
  • Sunita Chugh

    (Sunita Chugh is Fellow Scholar at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, 122001. E-mail: fpm04_schugh@mdi.ac.in, sunita.chugh@gmail.com)

  • Punam Sahgal

    (Punam Sahgal is Professor of OB at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, NOIDA Campus. E-mail: punam.sahgal@gmail.com; psahgal@iiml.ac.in)

Abstract

Women comprise a large segment of the available managerial talent across the globe, yet their representation at top level managerial positions in business and public administration, is rather obscure. The leadership prospect for women managers is a critical issue in gender equality and remains a researchable proposition. This article examines the literature of the last two decades on career advancement and leadership to unearth the impediments for women in management. Sex role orientation and the stereotyping of a manager's role as a masculine construct, along with the glass ceiling effect in organizations, are predominant themes that explain why so few women progress to positions of leadership and authority. The literature also points out that lack of career planning amongst women managers and their collaborative, power sharing management style, that are in sharp contrast to male managers, significantly influence women's advancement to the top echelons of management.

Suggested Citation

  • Sunita Chugh & Punam Sahgal, 2007. "Why Do Few Women Advance to Leadership Positions?," Global Business Review, International Management Institute, vol. 8(2), pages 351-365, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:globus:v:8:y:2007:i:2:p:351-365
    DOI: 10.1177/097215090700800211
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/097215090700800211
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/097215090700800211?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Crystal L. Owen & Robert F. Scherer & Michael Z. Sincoff & Mark Cordano, 2003. "Perceptions of Women as Managers in Chile and the United States," American Journal of Business, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 18(2), pages 43-50.
    2. Peter Cappelli & Monika Hamori, 2004. "The Path to the Top: Changes in the Attributes and Careers of Corporate Executives, 1980-2001," NBER Working Papers 10507, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Seth D. Zimmerman, 2019. "Elite Colleges and Upward Mobility to Top Jobs and Top Incomes," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 109(1), pages 1-47, January.
    2. Kenjiro Hirata & Shinpei Sano & Katsuya Takii, 2021. "How can a college's admissions policies help produce future business leaders?," OSIPP Discussion Paper 21E003, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University.
    3. Moreno Domínguez, María Jesús & Martín Zamora, María Pilar & Serrano Czaia, Isabel & Rodríguez Ariza, Lázaro, 2022. "Reputation and leadership: a study about reputational transfer in family and non-family firms," Cuadernos de Gestión, Universidad del País Vasco - Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (IEAE).
    4. Eva Judith Lopez Sullivan, 2011. "Attitudes Towards Managerial Women In Puerto Rico: Their Experiences In The Inside Corporate World, Actitudes Hacia Las Gerenciales Puertorriquenas Y Sus Vivencias Al Interior De Las Empresas," Revista Internacional Administracion & Finanzas, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 4(3), pages 73-87.
    5. Aaron D. Hill & Arun D. Upadhyay & Rafik I. Beekun, 2015. "Do female and ethnically diverse executives endure inequity in the CEO position or do they benefit from their minority status? An empirical examination," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 36(8), pages 1115-1134, August.
    6. Rocio Bonet & Peter Cappelli & Monika Hamori, 2020. "Gender differences in speed of advancement: An empirical examination of top executives in the Fortune 100 firms," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(4), pages 708-737, April.
    7. Holger Lüdeke & Hanjo Allinger, 2017. "Zeig mir deine Freunde und ich sag dir, wer du bist – Ein empirischer Test zur Berücksichtigung der Akteursheterogenität in der Sozialkapitalforschung [Known by the company you keep – an empirical ," Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, Springer, vol. 69(1), pages 1-40, March.
    8. Michael Koch & Bernard Forgues & Vanessa Monties, 2017. "The Way to the Top: Career Patterns of Fortune 100 CEOS," Post-Print hal-02051118, HAL.
    9. Chowdhury, Sanjib, 2011. "The moderating effects of customer driven complexity on the structure and growth relationship in young firms," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 26(3), pages 306-320, May.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:globus:v:8:y:2007:i:2:p:351-365. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.imi.edu/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.