New Insights on the Obstacles, Opportunities, and Outcomes on Women’s Path to Leadership

We adopt a multi-method approach to examine women’s path to leadership from before their careers have even begun, to their leadership at the CEO level. Across four talks employing field studies, lab experiments, and natural language processing, we study how a follow-your-passions ideology causes women to opt out of male-dominated careers, how women’s desires for power or status intersect to impact their likelihood of incurring backlash, how...