W omen are proportionally better educated than men with regard to the population as a whole, the workforce and postgraduates (OECD, 2015), especially in many western countries, ceteris paribus . However, women represent only 4.6% of Fortune 500 CEOs (Catalyst, 2014a), 13.7% of European Union board seats (European Commission, 2012) and 20% of ministers globally (Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2013), knowing that their presence on boards of Fortune 500 companies is assumed to improve corporate performance of these firms (Catalyst, 2007). Dang and Nguyen (2016) have demonstrated that board gender diversity can positively affect a firm's performance in top French SBF-120 companies while Moulin and Point (2012) noted that several determinants (individual, organizational, political, etc.) account for the proportion of women in French SBF-120 companies which have to comply with the legal constraint of a 40% quota of women on their boards. Several factors can thus explain women limited access to higher decision-making positions linked to the glass ceiling phenomenon (Toué, 2014). Not surprisingly, many studies have addressed the issue of limited presence in elite leadership positions from different angles (see for instance Terjsen and Singh, 2008;Moulin and Point, 2012;Ponchut and Barth, 2012).For Butler (1990), sex refers to the biological difference in maleness or femaleness while gender is a socially and culturally-constructed and maintained set of masculine versus feminine ideals and standards. While an extensive body of research have focused on the study of the aspect of sex/gender and leadership