{
  "title": "Women’s leadership in the canton of Geneva: how can authority be assessed without a double standard?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/geneve-leadership-au-feminin-evaluer-autorite-sans-double-standard-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-07-27",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A firm position does not necessarily receive the same assessment depending on who expresses it. How can leadership development avoid making women solely responsible for compensating for evaluation bias?",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Women in Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Geneva",
    "region": "Genève",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Alice H."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism: recognised competence, penalised behaviour",
      "point": "Laurie A."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The hasty conclusion: teach women to be more accommodating",
      "point": "One might conclude that training should primarily teach women to soften their authority."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The limits: neither a Geneva diagnosis nor a universal formula",
      "point": "These studies do not measure how frequently such biases occur in Geneva’s businesses and institutions, and experimental selection does not reproduce an ongoing working relationship."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Genève",
      "point": "One possible application within the SHR programme would be to simulate, first in French and then in English, a contested decision in a Geneva private bank, international organisation, watchmaking business or commodity trading company; these scenarios would be explicitly hypothetical."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Karau",
      "year": "2002",
      "source": "Psychological Review"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Glick",
      "year": "2001",
      "source": "Journal of Social Issues"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 450,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-Training-Women-In-Leadership-Geneva-geneve-leadership-au-feminin-evaluer-autorite-sans-double-standard-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "fr": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/geneve-leadership-au-feminin-evaluer-autorite-sans-double-standard",
    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/geneve-leadership-au-feminin-evaluer-autorite-sans-double-standard-en",
    "de": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/geneve-leadership-au-feminin-evaluer-autorite-sans-double-standard-de",
    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/geneve-leadership-au-feminin-evaluer-autorite-sans-double-standard-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation-leadership-au-feminin-geneve",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/geneve",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}