TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychosocial Barriers to Female Leadership
T2 - Motivational Gravity in Ghana and Tanzania
AU - Akuahmoah-Boateng, Robert
AU - Bolitho, Floyd H.
AU - Carr, Stuart C.
AU - Chidgey, J. E.
AU - O'Reilly, Bridie M.
AU - Phillips, Rachel
AU - Purcell, Ian P.
AU - Rugimbana, Robert Obadiah
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Women continue to be underrepresented in management globally, including the so-called "develop ing" countries, where gender diversity is especially crucial to business development. From Ghana, 120 experienced employees and 83 future managers from Tanzania's University of Dar-es-Salaam, read scenarios depicting male or female achievers, and predicted what proportions of co-workers and bosses would display encouragement, discouragement, or apathy. In Ghana, male respondents predicted encouragement from males towards male and female achievers but discouragement from females towards female achievers, while female respondents predicted more discouragementgenerally. In Tanzania, male respondents also predicted discouragement from females towards female achievers, while female respondents predicted the exact reverse. Such similarities and differences, across culturally diverse contexts in West and East Africa, highlight both global and local barriers to women in development.
AB - Women continue to be underrepresented in management globally, including the so-called "develop ing" countries, where gender diversity is especially crucial to business development. From Ghana, 120 experienced employees and 83 future managers from Tanzania's University of Dar-es-Salaam, read scenarios depicting male or female achievers, and predicted what proportions of co-workers and bosses would display encouragement, discouragement, or apathy. In Ghana, male respondents predicted encouragement from males towards male and female achievers but discouragement from females towards female achievers, while female respondents predicted more discouragementgenerally. In Tanzania, male respondents also predicted discouragement from females towards female achievers, while female respondents predicted the exact reverse. Such similarities and differences, across culturally diverse contexts in West and East Africa, highlight both global and local barriers to women in development.
U2 - 10.1177/097133360301500206
DO - 10.1177/097133360301500206
M3 - Comment/debate
SN - 0971-3336
VL - 15
SP - 201
EP - 220
JO - Psychology and Developing Societies
JF - Psychology and Developing Societies
IS - 2
ER -