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Gender stereotypes in management: A comparative study of communist and postcommunist Romania
Author(s) -
Curşeu Petru Lucian,
Boroş Smaranda
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207594.2011.554554
Subject(s) - communism , perception , period (music) , psychology , style (visual arts) , gender studies , social psychology , political science , sociology , history , aesthetics , law , philosophy , archaeology , neuroscience , politics
This study sets out to investigate the changes in the perception of women in leading positions in communist and postcommunist Romania. The study uses a noninvasive paradigm of analyzing the content of obituaries for women and men in leading positions published in a national journal, and shows that the gender gap in management widened during the postcommunist period. In postcommunist Romania, women are perceived as being less able to lead/manage and more relational in their leadership style as compared to men, while in the communist period the gender differences were not significant.