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While women constitute about half of the world population and half of the workforce (Holst & Kirsch, 2014; US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2002), they are largely underrepresented in leadership roles (Miller, Taylor, & Buck, 1991; Wirth, 2001). In the Fortune 500 list of companies, less than 5 percent of the CEOs are women (Catalyst, 2002). This number is comparable to women in top leadership roles in other countries. For instance, in Germany, 8.6 percent of the board seats in the largest 100 companies are held by women (DIW Managerinnen-Barometer, 2016), and in Australia, women occupy 16.3 percent of CEO/Head of Business positions (Workplace Gender Equality Agency, 2016). Practitioners and researchers alike have explored the various reasons that may evoke and perpetuate this inequality. Previous scholarly work has classified research on the underrepresentation of women in leadership roles into a …