Research Notes. Follower Attitudes Toward Women And Judgments Concerning Performance By Female And Male Leaders

Abstract

The article presents a study pertaining to the attitudes of male cadets toward their female leaders. The study utilized the Army Research Institute's attitudes toward women in the military scale (ARIAWS). The subjects were U.S. Military Academy cadets in leader and trainee roles at Cadet Basic Training and Cadet Field Training. The study results were compared with the results from a similar study conducted at West Point. Researchers discovered that male cadet attitudes about their female leaders were favorably influenced by the leader's performance, negating the negative sex-role stereotypes.