Women and Leadership by Florence L. Denmark & Michele A. Paludi

Author:Florence L. Denmark & Michele A. Paludi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Grounding the Paucity of Women’s Leadership

Attribution Error

According to attribution theory , the personality characteristics (and personal accomplishments) of women and men are often perceived differently (Kirchmeyer, 1998). For example, women’s accomplishments may be attributed to luck or other external factors; additionally, women’s advancement may be attributed to affirmative action and not to personal ability (Kirchmeyer, 1998; Lyness & Thompson, 1997). Moreover, a woman’s performance (on tasks traditionally perceived to be associated with male characteristics) is often attributed to luck or to effort, and men’s performance is attributed to skill (Greenhaus & Parasuraman, 1993). The reason for the former can be explained through the idea that such successes violate people’s sex role expectations; to avoid cognitive dissonance, many observers attribute negative attributes to women, such that women are not responsible for their own successes—they just “got lucky.”

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