Do Male Workers Prefer Male Leaders?

The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap

“…5 Most related to our study, Kunze and Miller (2017) examine data from a private firm in Norway and find a positive association between the share of male managers at the establishment level and a gender gap in the promotion rate of employees. Other related studies measure the effects of female board members and executives (Bell, 2005;Bertrand et al, 2019;Cardoso and Winter-Ebmer, 2010;Dalvit et al, 2022;Flabbi et al, 2019), female school principals (Grissom, Nicholson-Crotty, and Keiser, 2012;Husain, Matsa, and Miller, 2022), female referees and female committee members (Bagues, Sylos-Labini, and Zinovyeva, 2017;Card, Dellavigna, Funk, and Iriberri, 2020;Kim, 2020). 6 We contribute to this literature in several ways.…”

Principal and Teacher Shared Race and Gender Intersections: Teacher Turnover, Workplace Conditions, and Monetary Benefits

“…This study builds on a wealth of literature exploring how principals affect teachers, particularly studies assessing whether teacher and principal demographics are associated with teacher outcomes. Previous authors have largely found that teachers who share the same race as their principals leave their jobs less often than teachers who do not share the same race as their principal (Grissom & Keiser, 2011;Grissom et al, 2009;Renzulli et al, 2011); a similar relationship exists when teachers share the same gender as their principals (Grissom et al, 2012;Husain et al, 2021). Research from Tennessee and Missouri has found that principals tend to increase the proportion of same-race teachers in the schools they lead over time (Bartanen & Grissom, 2021).…”

“…We similarly derive the hypothesis that female and male teachers will experience representation effects differently. Although the literature on gender representation among teachers and principals is underdeveloped, theoretical arguments and empirical evidence suggest that representation may be most salient for male teachers in a female-dominated teaching profession (Grissom et al, 2012;Husain et al, 2021;Meier, 2019): H3: Such benefits will be higher for male teachers with race-congruent male principals than for female teachers with race-congruent female principals.…”

Gender stereotypes and hiding low performance

“…Husain et al. (2021) find that male teachers are more likely to quit their position if the school principal is female than male, while there is no difference for female teachers. De Paola and Scoppa (2015) estimate the probability of success of candidates for promotion in relation to the gender composition of the promotion committee in a natural experiment.…”