Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams
通过两个现场实验，研究团队性别构成和领导性别对女性影响力的作用，发现男性占多数的团队中女性影响力被低估，但指派女性领导能显著提升女性影响力。
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%.