Women less interested in becoming leaders in male-majority groups

Being in the minority adversely affects women’s desire to become leaders, an experimental study in economics shows. The main reasons for the results are that women gain lower self-confidence in environments with many men and expect lower support from the group.“The wage gap between men and women today is mainly due to women and men working in different positions and in different sectors, and is not primarily an effect of women having a shorter education or working to a lesser extent. In our study, we investigate whether male-majority environments in and of themselves can be a reason why