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Women

What happens when women lead?

❋ Transformational Leadership

Female leaders demonstrate more transformational leadership style, according to a landmark 1992 meta-analysis of 61 studies led by Eagly. They are more likely to epitomize what’s good in the organization and inspire people to go along with its mission, compared with men, study results show.

❋ Fairer Treatment

The mere presence of a female leader relative to a male leader led perceivers to anticipate fairer treatmentopens in new window in that organization and greater projected salary and status, according to a 2022 study led by social psychologist Mansi P. Joshi, PhD. Female leaders cued organizational trust in both male- and female-dominated industries and when they occupied different levels of the organizational hierarchy.

❋ Team Collaboration

Team collaboration is greatly improved by the presence of women in the group,opens in new window an effect that is primarily explained by women’s benefits to group processes, according to a 2010 study. Groups with more women exhibited greater equality in conversational turn-taking, further enabling the group members to be responsive to one another and to make the best use of the knowledge and skills of members.

❋ Honest Leadership

Women rank better than or equal to men in seven of eight traitsopens in new window relevant to leadership assessed in a 2008 national survey by the Pew Research Center. Half of the respondents ranked women as more honest than men, with 20% saying that men are more honest than women. In terms of intelligence, 38% said they viewed women as smarter, with only 14% indicating men are smarter. Women were also ranked as being more compassionate, outgoing, and creative.

Female-Founded Startups That Are Hiring Right Now

Here are female-founded, VC-backed startups that are actively hiring across engineering, product, ops, and go-to-market:

Dion (Founded by Revekka Palaiologou) – Hiring for Senior Mobile Engineer (Remote / Hybrid)

Anrok (Co-founded by Michelle Valentine) – Hiring for Engineering, Product, and GTM (San Francisco / Remote)

CookUnity (Co-founded by Clara Quiroga) – Hiring for Operations, Marketing, and Tech (New York / Remote)

Vida Health (Founded by Stephanie Tilenius) – Hiring for Clinical Ops, Product, and Engineering (Remote)

1Password (Co-founded by Natalia Karimov and Sara Teare) – Hiring for Engineering, Security, and Customer Success (Remote)

Jobot (Founded by Heidi Golledge) – Hiring for Recruiting, Sales, and Tech (Remote / Hybrid)

Zeta Charter Schools (Founded by Emily Kim) – Hiring for Education Leadership and Operations (New York)

source: Keren Hod