Rick Gilkey couldn't agree more. He's a professor of organization and management at the Goizueta Business School and an associate professor of psychiatry at the Emory University School of Medicine, and he has helped develop women leaders in several large organizations. From that perspective, Gilkey sees women held back by roles that stereotype them as not being strategic.
"These are roles that organizations and women's male counterparts assign them and then make attributions and inferences about their not being strategic. The perception of women as nonstrategic players is the new glass ceiling," says Gilkey.