ERIC Number: EJ1396457
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0951-5224
EISSN: EISSN-1468-2273
Understanding the Emergence of Females as Leaders in Academia: The Intersections of Gender Stereotypes, Status and Emotion
Gaus, Nurdiana; Larada, Nasrullah; Jamaluddin, Syakir; Paramma, Muhammad Azwar; Karim, Abdul
Higher Education Quarterly, v77 n4 p693-708 2023
Drawing on the expectation state theory, this paper seeks to analyse the social cognitive process of the impacts of gender stereotypes along with their culturally derived schemas of status belief, status characteristics and emotion at the early stage of women's endeavour to emerge as leaders in academia. Employing a convenience sampling and interviews held with five women academic participants from three public and private universities in the western region of Indonesia, this research reveals that two social cognitive practices affect women's endeavour to emerge as leaders; (1) the incongruities of cultural and cognitive expected status belief and status characteristics about females with the expected performance of leadership. The pervasive effect of these can be mitigated when women adopt a strategy of neglection, coupled with a strategy of networking both via their own networks and their husband's networks; (2) the incongruities of cultural and cognitive expected ways of emotional expression on women with the expected performance of leadership. This impacts the status conferral that shapes the worthiness of females to emerge as leaders, leading female leaders in our study to build a protective shield of emotion display to keep them perceived as worthy individuals for leadership roles.
Descriptors: Females, Higher Education, Sex Stereotypes, Status, Psychological Patterns, Foreign Countries, Social Cognition, Beliefs, College Faculty, Leadership, Cultural Influences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Indonesia
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