TY  - SER
AU  - Karpowitz, Christopher F.
AU  -  O'Connell, Stephen D.
AU  -  Preece, Jessica
AU  -  Stoddard, Olga
TI  - Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women's Influence in Teams
SN  - 0022-3808
PB  - Journal of Political Economy
KW  -  Leadership
KW  -  Women's Influence in Teams
KW  - Gender Composition
N2  - This article studies the effect of team gender composition and leadership on women's influence in two field experiments. Study 1 finds that male-majority teams accord disproportionately less influence to women and are less likely to choose women to represent the team externally. We replicate this finding in a new context, where we also vary the gender of an assigned team leader. We find that a female leader substantially increases women's influence, even in male-majority teams. With a model of discriminatory voting, we show that either increasing women's share or assigning a female leader decreases the penalty women face by more than 50%
UR  - https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/729578
ER  -