These findings are noteworthy: one of the key aspects of agency isindependence, and it appears that women do not see themselvesor other women to be lacking it more than men. Women also didnot make distinctions between men and women in general whenrating their leadership competence, another key component ofagency. These findings suggest that, for modern day women,some important aspects of the agency stereotype no longer apply.
This section can go back to the question of why men are resistant of women taking on agentic roles. It's the independence which goes against the societal expectation of women depending on a male spouse. Gender stereotypes have always had more benefits for men than women, but with women in modern day beginning to let go of these aspects of what separates men and women in terms of agency and communality, it reaches a new kind of role/view completely.

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