Cha Hyunjin, Uchida Yukiko, Choi Eunsoo
School of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Institute for the Future of Human Society, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Front Psychol. 2023 May 18;14:1088190. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1088190. eCollection 2023.
The present study examined the difference between women and men in perceiving leadership roles. Two experiments, one conducted online and the other in a lab, investigated the subjective experiences of Japanese men and women when they are assigned with different roles (e.g., leader vs. subordinate). Both studies revealed that women perceived their role as less legitimate when they were assigned leader role (vs. subordinate role). In contrast, men did not differ in their perceived legitimacy according to the assigned roles. This discrepancy in legitimacy perception in response to different roles between men and women accounted for a significant variance in women's lower sense of status when they were a leader (vs. subordinate), but not among men. Our study results illustrate the psychological barrier operating for women in organizations that are embedded in a cultural context in which women leaders are highly underrepresented.
本研究考察了男性和女性在领导角色认知上的差异。两项实验,一项在线进行,另一项在实验室进行,调查了日本男性和女性在被赋予不同角色(如领导者与下属)时的主观体验。两项研究均表明,当女性被赋予领导角色(相对于下属角色)时,她们认为自己的角色合法性较低。相比之下,男性对角色合法性的认知并未因所赋予的角色而有所不同。男女在对不同角色的合法性认知上的这种差异,解释了女性担任领导者(相对于下属)时地位感较低的显著差异,但男性中不存在这种差异。我们的研究结果说明了在女性领导者代表性严重不足的文化背景下,组织中女性面临的心理障碍。