Promoted Up But Also Out? The Unintended Consequences of Increasing Women’s Representation in Managerial Roles in Engineering

For helpful feedback on previous drafts, the author is grateful to Senior Editor Michel Anteby, three anonymous reviewers, and participants in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Organizational Behavior seminar series. Thank you to Brandon Grant for assistance with data collection. For impactful conversations, the author is appreciative of Brianna Caza, Amy Wrzesniewski, Heather Vough, Denise Loyd, Robin Ely, the women of the Harvard Faculty R&D Retreat, and attendees of the May Meaning Meeting. I am grateful to the 61 engineers whose willingness to share their experiences made this paper possible.