Dr. Leah Sheppard

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2020 - present
Associate Professor of Management
Carson College of Business, Washington State University
2014 - 2020
Assistant Professor of Management
Carson College of Business, Washington State University
EDUCATION
PhD in Business Administration (Organizational Behavior and Human Resources)
Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
MSc in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
University of Western Ontario
Honors BA in Psychology
University of Western Ontario
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Broadly, I am interested in studying the mechanisms by which gender inequality in organizations is produced and reproduced. I examine this research question primarily by investigating gender stereotypes and how they impact women's and men's workplace outcomes.
Most of the projects I am currently working on fall into one of the categories below:
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Gender and leadership/entrepreneurship:
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Women's leadership aspirations
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Benevolent sexism
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Intrasexual conflict; stereotypes about women's same-sex conflict
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Gender and stress
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Gender and entrepreneurial success
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Fragile masculinity
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Social sexual behavior at work:
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Outcomes for women and men of enjoyed social sexual behavior
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Attractiveness biases:
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Gender, attractiveness, and workplace outcomes
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