Confidence in Women Leaders

I found this to be a very interesting article (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/11/women_leaders_need_self-confidence.html) about the need for confident women in the workplace.  


The article discusses leadership gender stereotypes, and states that "Applied to leadership, gender role stereotypes suggest that female-stereotypical forms of leadership are interpersonally oriented and collaborative, whereas male-stereotypical forms of leadership are task oriented and dominating. To the extent that women who are leaders exhibit a masculine style, they amplify their role conflict and increase the chances of receiving unfairly negative evaluations."  This reflects the bullying in the workplace post, as women who try to take on the dominating leader role are often seen as bullies and receive negative feedback.