NEW! A cross-industry comparison of how women leaders experience gender bias

Amber Stephenson, Leanne Dzubinski, and Amy Diehl
Personnel Review
March 1, 2022
Compares 15 gender bias factors across four industries: law, higher education, faith-based nonprofits, and healthcare.
An exploration of gender bias affecting women in medicine

Amber Stephenson, Amy Diehl, Leanne Dzubinski, Mara McErlean, John Huppertz, Mandeep Sidhu
The Contributions of Health Care Management to Grand Health Care Challenges
December 2021
Exploration of how gender biases affect women physicians, physician leaders, researchers, and faculty including the association with workplace satisfaction. Includes recommendations to improve gender equity and inclusivity.

Amy Diehl, Amber Stephenson, Leanne Dzubinski, David Wang
Human Resource Development Quarterly
April 2020
Presents comprehensive 47-item scale which measures women leaders’s experiences and perceptions of gender bias and introduces six primary factors and 15 subfactors of this bias.
Women’s ways of leading: The environmental effect
Leanne Dzubinski, Amy Diehl & Michelle Taylor
Gender in Management: An International Journal
Feb 2019
The pressure on women to conform to an organization’s executive leadership culture can be enormous. This conceptual paper presents a four-quadrant model which describes ways in which executive-level women are constrained to self-monitor based on context.
The problem of gender essentialism and its implications for women in leadership

Leanne Dzubinski & Amy Diehl
Journal of Leadership Studies
June 2018
How does gender essentialism, or the belief that gender differences are tied to biology, affect research on women in leadership? Analyzes research and includes implications for leadership practice.
Making the invisible visible: A cross-sector analysis of gender-based leadership barriers
Amy Diehl & Leanne Dzubinski
Human Resource Development Quarterly
Summer 2016
Seminal work on gender barriers faced by women in leadership. Based on face-to-face interviews with women leaders in higher education and faith-based organizations.
An overview of gender-based leadership barriers
Amy Diehl & Leanne Dzubinski
Handbook of Research on Gender and Leadership
2017
Overview of gender barriers faced by women in leadership. Contains more stories from face-to-face interviews with women leaders in higher education and faith-based organizations.
Making meaning of barriers and adversity: Experiences of women leaders in higher education
Amy Diehl
Advancing Women in Leadership
2014
Answers the question “how do women leaders in higher education make meaning of adversity?” Based on face-to-face interviews with 26 women presidents, provosts and vice-presidents in higher education.
Approaches of women in higher education leadership: Navigating adversity, barriers and obstacles
Amy Diehl
Women and Leadership in Higher Education
2014
What strategies do women leaders use to navigate adversity? Explores factors which enabled women leaders in higher education to get through difficult situations in their personal and professional lives.