TY - JOUR AB - Data gathered by the authors from undergraduate and part‐time graduate business students in1976‐1977 suggested that men were more likely than women to aspire to top management and that, consistent with traditional stereotypes of males and managers, a gender identity consisting of high masculinity and low femininity was associated with aspirations to top management. As a result of gender‐related social changes, we expected the gender difference in aspirations to top management but not the importance of gender identity to have decreased over time. We collected data in 1999 from the same two populations to test these notions. In newly collected data, high masculinity (but not low femininity) was still associated with such aspirations, and men still aspired to top management positions more than women. However, the gender difference in aspirations to top management did not decrease over time. VL - 18 IS - 1/2 SN - 0964-9425 DO - 10.1108/09649420310462361 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/09649420310462361 AU - Powell Gary N. AU - Butterfield D. Anthony PY - 2003 Y1 - 2003/01/01 TI - Gender, gender identity, and aspirations to top management T2 - Women in Management Review PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 88 EP - 96 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -