Talk:Sex and gender differences in leadership

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Left wing bias alert

This piece is not talk about sex differences in leadership, it is just a stereo typical one-sided “gender studies” hit piece on masculinity. It doesn’t even mention male leadership attributes, which because they are authoritative (agentic) and not communal, are actually considered more effective by employees over communal leadership traits, at least as primary leadership traits. Masculity is more confident, authoritative, assertive, competitive, independent and courageous and that is actually why men make on on average, generally speaking, better managers than women.

I am not an academian but anyone in academia who is not an ideologue and can see the extreme bias in this article should correct it to be more balanced. Beriboe (talk) 18:15, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Title

The title, Sex differences in leadership is, at first glance, about sex, which has a word count of 16. The word count for gender = 26. Why this discrepancy? If the contributors writing about gender are not aware that sex and gender are two entirely different matters, don't they feel they are, a priori, quite unqualified to be contributors?--Damorbel (talk) 16:12, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Great comment. Because leadership is a social construct, and most studies about sex/gender and leadership focus on gender, it makes more sense to me to re-title this article "Gender differences in leadership" or at least Gender and Sex differences in Leadership. Research on the extent to which sex differences (biological) affect leadership could go in a sub-section. I'm happy to work on this aspect but will wait to see if there are comments about the title change I propose. I do note that this is in a Series of articles on sex differences in humans ... so maybe a title that includes Sex and Gender is good, even if the predominance of research regards the latter (which I am pretty sure it does). Sharp-shinned.hawk (talk) 14:07, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Planning re-write with revised title

I'm planning to start working on re-writing this, in response to the banner (see below), and with the title "Gender and Sex Differences in Leadership." As I mentioned below in a comment, the field of leadership studies has shifted over time from a sex-based approach to both sex and gender, but more often gender. I am planning to design the structure based on several key reference sources in the field of leadership studies that reflect a range of viewpoints: The Bass Handbook of Leadership (2008), Through the Labyrinth, by Eagly and Carli (2007), the Oxford Handbook on Gender and Organizations, by Powell (2014) and A Research Agenda for Gender and Leadership by Tan and DeFrank-Cole (2023). I will supplement this with recent literature reviews of gender and leadership such as:

Shen, Winny, and Dana L. Joseph. 2021. “Gender and Leadership: A Criterion-Focused Review and Research Agenda.” Human Resource Management Review 31 (2): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2020.100765.
Leadership: Re-Thinking the State of Research on Gender and Leadership Through Waves of Feminist Thinking.” Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies 31 (3): 245–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/15480518241257105.
Collinson, David et al., 2023. “Men, Masculinities, and Leadership: Emerging Issues.” In A Research Agenda for Gender and Leadership, 87–106. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800883826.00010.

Since this needs a structural overhaul, I'll probably do a first round that is a really large edit in order to at least get the structure in place. I plan to include men's leadership, as per the comment below.

Please respond here if you have comments about this approach, and/or sources you would recommend, preferably by December 3, 2024 (the earliest I can imagine making first edits).

Banner I'm responding to: "This article is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. (November 2012)" Sharp-shinned.hawk (talk) 13:59, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New outline proposed

Here is the new outline I've started, based on a review of several literature reviews and encyclopedias as mentioned in my last post. I'm sure to refine it some as I go, but I think this captures a lot of it. Comments and questions welcome

Introduction

Historiography

Conceptual Approaches (with subheadings Sex/Gender Stereotypes, Sex/Gender Roles, The "Female Advantage," Gender Complexity)

Major Areas of Study (with subheadings Leadership Styles, Leadership Emergence, Leader Effectiveness)

Gaps and Future Research

Sharp-shinned.hawk (talk) 19:35, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draft article ready for review

I've posted a draft of a new version of this article in my userspace, here: feel free to comment in the Talk space of that page. I am working on formatting citations and adding wikilinks; when I get that done I plan to move it here so that Talk can continue in the actual page space. I've also created a page in my userspace to explain what I'm retaining/integrating from the current/old article into the new one, as well as what I'm "letting go" and why. Sharp-shinned.hawk (talk) 15:36, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New article content is posted!

All right I've posted the new content in mainspace. I still have some cleanup to do and will be working on that actively. Please note I created a page in my userspace to explain what I'm retaining/integrating from the current/old article into the new one, as well as what I did not include, and why. Sharp-shinned.hawk (talk) 17:17, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]