Levando mulheres ao topo: relações entre feminismo, papéis de gênero, sexismo e motivação para liderar e ajudar outras mulheres na carreira

Abstract

The persistence of gender inequality in leadership roles and the existence of numerous barriers that contribute to this reality shows that it is urgent to investigate the factors that can prevent and even contribute to more women assuming leadership roles, in an attempt to positively change the statistics. Therefore, this study aims to analyze how feminist identity, gender role attitudes and the personal endorsement of ambivalent sexism are related to women’s motivation to lead and to help other women in their careers. For this, we used a survey with 118 items. The questionnaire items are divided into five distinct parts, which assessed the constructs of feminist identification, gender roles, ambivalent sexism, motivation to lead and motivation to help. In addition, a brief sociodemographic questionnaire was used to investigate gender, age, state and education level. Data analysis was carried out using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. To measure the relationships between the variables, Pearson's correlation was performed. The results pointed that self-labeling feminist is related to non- leader women's motivation to lead. Also, non-leader women with high scores in male gender roles have greater motivation to lead. On the other hand, women who have bigger sexist gender role attitudes showed less motivation to lead.