One emotionality gender stereotype is that men are believed to have better control over the expression of their emotions compared to women. What do people typically infer about men and masculinity based on this stereotype? What are the implications of this stereotype on women in leadership roles? Explain the double-bind women in leadership roles are in because of this.
What will be an ideal response?
Based on this stereotype, people typically infer that men are more rational and less likely to let emotion sway their decision-making. This emotional restraint is stereotyped as masculine and reflective of good judgment. Many argue that effective leadership requires a calm, cool-headed, and dispassionate nature, but these traits don’t mesh with the stereotype of women as emotional. In turn, women are perceived to be less competent as leaders. However, women are in a double-bind because even if a women controls her emotional expression to demonstrate competence, she is perceived as cold, calculating, or dishonest because she is violating a gender-role stereotype. Either way is risky for a woman, leading to a no-win situation and making it even more difficult for women to fill leadership roles and for people to accept women in leadership roles without perceiving them unfeminine.
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