ABSTRACT
This chapter continues with analysis and discussion of the survey results, shifting to look at the respondents’ experience as leaders. When describing leadership success, women talked about promoting others’ success and achieving goals (often beyond expectations). Also important to those surveyed was developing a leader persona that fits, maintaining work-life balance, and sustaining a good relationship with one’s boss. Some shared stories of encountering—but not being stopped by—explicit, destructive bias. Many more discussed encountering subtle, unconscious biases associated with leader prototypes held by individuals and organizations. Over half of the survey respondents indicated they had turned down or walked away from leadership roles due to either perceived misfit with values/style/goals or perceived bias.
