For Immediate Release

January 15 , 2008

expert on men's, women's leadership behaviors to lecture at wesleyan

LINCOLN, Neb. — A leading expert in social psychology will present Nebraska Wesleyan University’s annual Fawl Lecture on January 31st titled, “Through the Labyrinth: How Women Have Both Advantages and Disadvantages as Leaders.”

Alice Eagly is the author of the book Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders, which was published in October 2007. In 2003, Eagly published a meta-analysis on the leadership styles of women and men in terms of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership behaviors. She is now working on a new meta-analysis on the stereotypes of leaders that focuses on the extent to which leadership roles are perceived in feminine or masculine terms and on differences in these perceptions between nations and across time periods.

Eagly is currently a professor of psychology and the James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University.

Her lecture, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7 p.m. in Olin A Lecture Hall, located one block east of 50th Street and St. Paul Ave.