Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women’s Leadership Development Programs _______________ Robin J. ELY Herminia IBARRA Deborah KOLB 2011/69/OB (Revised version of 2011/57/OB) Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women’s Leadership Development Programs Robin J. Ely* Herminia Ibarra** Deborah Kolb*** Revised version of 2011/57/OB Forthcoming as “Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women’s Leadership Development Programs” in SPECIAL ISSUE--Teaching Leadership - Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women’s Leadership Development Programs, Issue: Volume 10, Number 3 September 2011 – Copyright © Academy of Management Learning & Education Order of authorship is alphabetical. The authors contributed equally to the ideas and writing of this paper. * Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community at Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field, Boston, Massachusetts 02163, USA. Email:
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[email protected] Click here to access the INSEAD Working Paper collection Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women’s Leadership Development Programs We conceptualize leadership development as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women leaders.