Eugenia Bajet Mestre
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Bajet Mestre
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Item type:Publication, Women in academic publishing: Descriptive trends from authors to editors across 33 years of management science(2024) ;Brooke Gazdag; ;Cecile Emery ;Sebastian Andreas TidemanTraditionally, leadership scholars often study snapshots of leaders in organizations. However, academic publishing offers a unique, more controlled context to study leadership with implications for leadership scholars and scholarship. Hence, we present a descriptive overview of women’s representation across 33 years in 11 top management journals across levels of leaders in academic publishing (i.e., editors, associate editors, and editorial board members) and authors. To do so, we curated an archival dataset tracking women’s representation over time and across these four levels (i.e., 21,510 authors and 4,173 leaders) with 51,360 data entries for the authors and 320,545 for the leaders. Overall, women’s representation increased over time, which was explained by simple time trend effects. Only 32 of 135 editors were women (i.e., 23.7 %), and the share of women associate editors showed particularly drastic fluctuations. We did not observe a “leaky pipeline” except from the associate editor to editor step, as well as notable fluctuations—particularly after new editor appointments—and between journals. We discuss the influential roles editors and publishers have on women’s representation in academic publishing and science more broadly as well as implications for future research and policy.Type:journal articleJournal:The Leadership Quarterly - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, More Inclusive Leader Networking via Playfulness and Sport(2026-05-07); ; ; ; Type:conference paperJournal:Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, Leveraging Motherhood for Leadership? Promoting Family-to-Work Enrichment for Women's Careers(2025); ; ;Howe, Lauren ;Hernandez Bark AlinaJunker, NinaMothers experience professional disadvantages in masculine, agentic domains and roles like leadership. According to gender role theories, working women are often perceived to be either communal or agentic, with increases in one domain counterbalanced by losses in the other. In contrast, the work-family enrichment framework stipulates that work and family roles can benefit each other. Integrating these literatures, we theorize that professional mothers can be perceived as both communal and agentic by explicitly emphasizing the leadership-related resources gained from motherhood. In this way, mothers can reframe a highly communal role—motherhood—as agentic. We propose an intervention where job applicants describe affective and instrumental resources gained by motherhood as valuable for their work and leadership. We demonstrated the intervention’s positive effects on mothers’ career progression in a pre-registered encouragement field study with job-seeking mothers (N= 76) in the United States and the United Kingdom. We replicate this results in simulating callback decision with Generative AI (GPT-4). Between (N = 500) and within-subjects (N = 168) online experiments with experienced hiring managers allowed us to test and find support for our proposed mechanism: job-seeking mothers reframing their motherhood as agentic (vs. non-enrichment or control) are seen as higher in agency and communion, this leads to higher hireability and networking outcomes. Thus, by explicitly (re)framing motherhood in terms of the agentic, leadership-relevant resources it builds, job-seeking mothers improve their career progression via ascriptions of agency and communality.Type:conference paperJournal:Intervention Research for Equity and Inclusion at Work: Challenges and Opportunities - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Leveraging motherhood for leadership? Family-to-work enrichment for women’s career progression.(2025); ; ;Howe, LaurenJunker, NinaType:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, A playful path to more professional equity? Networking across diversity via sport(2024-08); ; ; ; Leaders develop via all domains of their lives. Yet, leaders’ sports involvement has been largely overlooked despite its theoretical and practical relevance, particularly for social development. Moreover, the limited research on the downstream social consequences of leaders’ sports involvement reveals different effects for men and women leaders—even opposing effects for the latter. Thus, we integrate social cognitive theory from developmental psychology to make sense of these contradictory findings. We theorize that sports contexts facilitate women’s networking with higher-status (male) leaders through its playfulness (i.e., leisurely, spontaneous, and socially interactive). An archival study of 644 leaders’ Twitter/X posts shows that sports generate more engagement—especially men interacting with women leaders’ sports posts (Study 1). A qualitative study with 58 leaders suggests sports’ playfulness facilitates these interactions as well as networking, results that we also quantitatively validated using ChatGPT (Study 2). Two recall experiments (Ntotal = 1,076) showed women leaders’ networking in sports (vs. traditional) contexts was more playful, and more playful sports contexts facilitated women (vs. men) leaders’ networking across gender and status differences (Pilot Study, Study 3). Our results show that more playful sports contexts facilitate women leaders’ successful networking across gender and status diversity—an innovation helping to level the playing field of gendered social capital development and future leadership inequalities in organizations. These results advance our understanding of conventional ways of networking as not always strategic and planned while also adding to diversity research by showing that sports—often framed as exclusionary—can also be inclusive.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Advancing Gender Equity and Diversity in the Workplace: The Role of Allyship and Leadership(2023) ;Lyubykh, Zhanna; ; ;Mercer, DanielleMegan Marie WalshAddressing inequity is a pressing societal concern. For example, numerous studies have provided consistent evidence for gender inequities as well as barriers and adverse workplace experiences women face. In this symposium, we aim to shed light on factors that can help accelerate social progress in the domain of gender and leadership. The papers in this symposium showcase how leaders can effectively facilitate women’s leadership advancement (Bajet Mestre & Gloor; Lyubykh, Alonso, & Turner) and help manage team diversity (Yang, Li, van Knippenberg, & Pieterse), offer a psychometrically robust scale to measure leader allyship (Mercer et al.), and explore how female leaders navigate tensions between gender expectations and leadership expectations (Khattab & Hentschel). We will conclude with a discussion (Hideg) to suggest directions for future research a well as takeaways for leaders, organizations, and policymakers.Type:conference paperJournal:Academy of Management ProceedingsVolume:2023Issue:1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Building Diverse and Inclusive Social Networks: New Theories and Empirical Evidence(2023); ; ;Raina Brands ;Ko KuwabaraPaul IngramType:conference paperJournal:Academy of Management Proceedings - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, More inclusive leader networking via playfulness and sport(2026-05); ; ; ; Engeler, IsabelleType:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Motherhood skills are leadership skills: Promoting family-to-work enrichment to get the promotion(2022-07-15) ;Junker, Nina; ; Hernandez Bark, AlinaType:conference speech