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Petru Lucian Curşeu1, Smaranda Boroş
1Department of Organisation Studies, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. p.l.curseu@uvt.nl
Abstract:
This study sets out to investigate the changes in the perception of women in leading positions in communist and postcommunist Romania. The study uses a noninvasive paradigm of analyzing the content of obituaries for women and men in leading positions published in a national journal, and shows that the gender gap in management widened during the postcommunist period. In postcommunist Romania, women are perceived as being less able to lead/manage and more relational in their leadership style as compared to men, while in the communist period the gender differences were not significant.
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