What affects women’s ability to lead an effective group?

In the article, “Evaluative Affect Display Toward Male and Female Leaders of Task-Oriented Groups” (Sabine Koch, 2005.) The study affirms that there is still a very small amount of women in upper management even though there is an increased amount of women in higher education positions. The study was used to measure data for the hypothesis: there will be more of negative feedback toward female authorities and higher competency rating for men than women. The study measured the negative feedback towards women than men, and found that, in general, women were significantly (almost two thirds) more negative towards woman than men, and men measured almost three times more negative towards women than men. This data provides an insight about the reactions toward women being in charge. Women in charge produced a more polarized group, while also receiving more negative feedback by subordinates than men do. This is interesting to find that both sex’s find it harder to work under a female than under a male leader.