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labyrinth: a standalone construct

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labyrinth1 CONSTRUCTLeadership labyrinthEAGLY · WOMEN'S PATH

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Management and leadership

The indirect path women take to leadership

In management and leadership research, the labyrinth is a metaphor for the complicated, indirect route that women navigate on the way to senior positions, one with many turns and dead ends rather than a single barrier at the top. Eagly and Carli proposed it in Women and the labyrinth of leadership (2007) as a replacement for the glass-ceiling image, and Carli and Eagly (2016) later tested it against rival metaphors for women's career paths. This referent is a description of an occupational path and the obstacles along it, studied through careers and promotion data, and it is unrelated to the maze of Crete or the cavity of the inner ear apart from the shared name.[1][2]

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A career path to leadership, described by its detours and barriers
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Studied through career histories, promotion data, and surveys of the obstacles women report

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References

  1. Eagly, A. H., & Carli, L. L. (2007). Women and the labyrinth of leadership. Harvard Business Review, 85(9), 62–71. https://doi.org/10.1108/hrmid.2008.04416aad.004
  2. Carli, L. L., & Eagly, A. H. (2016). Women face a labyrinth: An examination of metaphors for women leaders. Gender in Management, 31(8), 514–527. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-02-2015-0007

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