Accelerating the Advancement of Women Leaders Robin J. Ely Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Global Diversity and Inclusion 8 th Diversity and Inclusion Seminar Barcelona February 27, 2015
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Accelerating the Advancement ofWomen Leaders
Robin J. ElyDiane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community
Global Diversity and Inclusion
8th Diversity and Inclusion Seminar
Barcelona
February 27, 2015
Agenda
Barriers to women’s advancement
Cultural context: Gender stereotypes
Organizational context: Gendered norms and work practices
Accelerating women’s advancement
Lessons learned from a work-in-progress: Harvard Business School
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Cultural Context: Gender Stereotypes
Belief: Women lack ambition
False. Women lack support for their ambition
Leader Woman
Competitive AssertiveDecisive
WarmNurturing
Communal
What the Culture Tells Us
Woman ≠ Leader
Man Woman
Competitive AssertiveDecisive
WarmNurturing
Communal
What the Culture Tells Us
Woman ≠ Leader
Leader Woman
Competitive AssertiveDecisive
WarmNurturing
Communal
What the Culture Tells Us
Woman ≠ Leader
Research Findings
Experiment: MBA students evaluate two different versions of case of a successful
woman entrepreneur (Heidi and Howard).
Asked to evaluate style, competence, likeability, whether to hire.
Outcomes: Equally competent and effective.
He’s more genuine and kind; she’s more self-promoting and power hungry.
He’s more likeable and more likely to be hired.
The more aggressive they perceived her, the more they disliked her.
No relationship between his aggressiveness and likeability.
Frank Flynn and Cameron Mitchell, MBA Class experiment, NYU Stern School of Business
NYT Op Ed columnist, Maureen Dowd, questions Hilary’s authenticity: “Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House?” . . . And her competence: “We are at war. Is this how she’ll talk to [North Korean leader]?”
“[Women] leave [the workplace] more easily [than men] and find other parts of life more fulfilling.”
“They don’t want to do what it takes to get [to the top].”
Belkin, 2003
#1 Barrier : Women prioritize family over work
- HBS Alumni
(75%)
2013 HBS Alumni Survey: Importance of job & personal factorsWomen Men
Quality of personal and family relationships #1 #1 Work that is meaningful and satisfying #2 #2 Compatibility of work with personal and family life #3 #3 Ability to make a contribution to society #4 #5 Leisure pursuits and personal development #5 #4
Study of Men & Women Partners in Top Accounting Firm Probability of accepting leadership role, if offered: Men and women – 70% Proportion offered a leadership role?
Women – 47% Men – 68%
Women and men have similar aspirations
Research Findings
Research Findings
2013 HBS Alumni Survey: Work and Family Status
Gen X Baby Boom
%W%M %W%M At home full time
caring for kids:
Working full time: 74 95 57 72
Ever out of job market
> 6 mos for kids: 29 1 44 3
Out for any reason: 38 17 64 30
Fewer women are “opting out” than is commonly believed
10 0 9 0
Organizational Context: Gendered Norms and Work Practices
Organizational Context: Gendered Norms and Work Practices
Healthcare company: “I sat in a performance review and actually counted the number of times women were described as ‘nice.’ That was never a point of discussion about the men being reviewed.”
Accounting firm: “In year-end evaluation sessions, a woman was found a little bit short, and we didn’t see how she was going to get there. A man was found a little bit short, but we could figure out how he was going to get there because he looked like me, and I knew what I looked like 5 years ago and what I needed to grow into this.”
Financial management firm: “As soon as I started working at home one day a week my performance reviews went down despite the fact that my clients were happier and I got more work done.”
Consulting firm: “Our job postings seek perfection. Men who don’t meet all the qualifications apply anyway; women hold back.”
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Organizational Context: Gendered Norms and Work Practices
Healthcare company: “I sat in a performance review and actually counted the number of times women were described as ‘nice.’ That was never a point of discussion about the men being reviewed.”
Accounting firm: “In year-end evaluation sessions, a woman was found a little bit short, and we didn’t see how she was going to get there. A man was found a little bit short, but we could figure out how he was going to get there because he looked like me, and I knew what I looked like 5 years ago and what I needed to grow into this.”
Financial management firm: “As soon as I started working at home one day a week my performance reviews went down despite the fact that my clients were happier and I got more work done.”
Consulting firm: “Our job postings seek perfection. Men who don’t meet all the qualifications apply anyway; women hold back.”
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Organizational Context: Gendered Norms and Work Practices
Healthcare company: “I sat in a performance review and actually counted the number of times women were described as ‘nice.’ That was never a point of discussion about the men being reviewed.”
Accounting firm: “In year-end evaluation sessions, a woman was found a little bit short, and we didn’t see how she was going to get there. A man was found a little bit short, but we could figure out how he was going to get there because he looked like me, and I knew what I looked like 5 years ago and what I needed to grow into this.”
Financial management firm: “As soon as I started working at home one day a week my performance reviews went down despite the fact that my clients were happier and I got more work done.”
Consulting firm: “Our job postings seek perfection. Men who don’t meet all the qualifications apply anyway; women hold back.”
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Remedies
Increase awareness of bias
Reduce discrimination
Institute work-family accommodations
Drive from the top: benchmark, set metrics, hold people accountable
Accelerating women’s advancement is deep, ongoing, transformational work
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HBS Case Example: Background
The Culture and Community Initiative
Historical gender grade gap—publicly acknowledged
Disproportionate turnover among women faculty
Dean Nohria appointed July 2010
“Inclusion” is one of the School’s five priorities
Why are women not reaching parity with men?
20% women in tenured ranks; one third untenured
36% women in student body
Created the CCI and a new leadership position
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HBS Case Example: Mission
To cultivate a culture in which all members of the
community can thrive and reach their full potential for
advancing the mission of the School without
compromising excellence
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HBS Case Example: Mission
To cultivate a culture* in which all members of the
community can thrive and reach their full potential for
advancing the mission of the School without
compromising excellence
To advance this goal requires transformational work
Collaborators:
Susan SturmCenter for Institutional and Social Change
Columbia Law School
Heidi BrooksYale School of Management
* The way we do things around here.
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HBS Case Example: Mission
To cultivate a culture* in which all members of the
community can thrive and reach their full potential for
advancing the mission of the School without
compromising excellence
To advance this goal requires transformational work
Collaborators:
Susan SturmCenter for Institutional and Social Change