The Batten School continued its Leadership Working Group Speaker Series Thursday afternoon as it hosted two visiting professors speaking on the role of women in power.
Northwestern University Psychology Prof. Alice Eagly spoke on the positive impact female leaders could have in the business world and discussed gendered expectations for employees and executives.
“Women receive backlash for clearly dominant behavior while men can be seen as soft if they are too nice,” Eagly said. “The most effective leaders generally lie in an androgynous middle ground.”
Duke University Psychology Prof. Ashleigh Rosette, the second featured speaker, highlighted issues faced by leading black women, who must handle a double minority status.
“When we think about [racial minorities], we think about black men,” Rosette said. “When we think about [gender minorities], we think about white women. Where does that leave black women?”
Much of Rosette’s research is aimed at analyzing the role of black female leaders, which she said may be hindered by a lack of available data.
“Research on black women leaders has received scant attention and we are trying to change that,” Rosette said. “Still, [that] has to do with [the fact that black women] don’t have high representation in top positions.”
Although the panel was not intended to address how to establish more women in leadership positions, both Eagly and Rosette emphasized the need for progress in that arena.
“A lot of young men and women would like to think there’s no problem, and this was all sorted out 30-some years ago,” Eagly said. “[But] women are [still] not rising the same way men are in any sector of our economy, and that’s something we need to contemplate.”
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