Managing the Double Bind: Women Directors’ Participation Tactics in the Gendered Boardroom

The authors thank many of our colleagues for their feedback, insight, support, and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper. They are especially grateful to Emily Heaphy, Kira Schabram, Linda Smircich, Chris Henle, Samantha Conroy, Robin Ely, and participants of the May Meaning Meeting writing group and HR Edge Network at Colorado State University. Thank you also to Olivia Walker and Tomeka Carroll for their assistance with cleaning and coding the manuscripts. The authors also thank action editor Prof. Sarah Kaplan and three anonymous reviewers, whose insights helped greatly in developing the ideas in the paper. An earlier version of this work was presented at the 2018 Academy of Management Meeting.