{
  "title": "Women’s leadership in the canton of Vaud: how should tasks that lead to greater responsibility be allocated?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/leadership-au-feminin-vaud-repartir-taches-acces-responsabilites-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-07-22",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Tasks that are essential to a team are not always those that support promotion. Leadership development also requires examining who takes them on and who gains access to recognised assignments.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Women in Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "1. What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Linda Babcock, Maria P."
    },
    {
      "heading": "2. Why negotiating task allocation can carry a cost",
      "point": "Hannah Riley Bowles, Linda Babcock and Lei Lai (2007, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes) show, in compensation negotiation experiments, that social reactions to a request can differ according to gender and the evaluation setting."
    },
    {
      "heading": "3. The premature conclusion: learning to say no is enough",
      "point": "One might conclude that leadership training should primarily teach participants to decline tasks that receive little recognition."
    },
    {
      "heading": "4. The limits of the evidence and the categories",
      "point": "These studies do not measure task allocation in the canton of Vaud and do not establish a uniform pattern across its organisations."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lausanne",
      "point": "An exercise suitable for SHR’s “Women’s Leadership” programme would involve a Lausanne-based team recording newly allocated tasks for one month: the person approached, the allocation method, expected time and the explicit link to progression criteria."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Weingart",
      "year": "2017",
      "source": "American Economic Review"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Lai",
      "year": "2007",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 445,
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}