This paper discusses critically the discourses about female management and leadership. To understand the representations of professionnals about this topic, an analysis of three books dedicated to the subject, and semi-structured interviews of managers of a large consulting corporation are compared with the academic literature. Their discourses are framed around two axes : the naturalization of differences between men and women, and the coming of a new kind of more feminine management. These discourses are an opportunity to promote diversity and renewed managerial practices, but also expose strenghten perceived differences between men and women, to the detriment of female managers.