As organizations become increasingly team-based and less hierarchical, the leader (and follower) role could stretch within groups and be shared by all group members. When faced with gender-diverse groups, members or observers of the group may have difficulty perceiving women as leaders (and men as followers), especially when members that are men are engaged in leader-like behaviors. The current study examines the relationships among gender status beliefs, gender implicit biases, and leader and follower perceptions. I integrate entitativity into these relationships to investigate the possibility of a moderating effect. I attempt to provide an explanation for why members in gender-diverse groups may initially perceive women as leaders and men as followers. To test my hypotheses, I used a survey design with a manipulated moderator in which data were collected from 175 participants over two time points. Generally, results do not support the theoretical arguments included, however, entitativity was found to be a significant moderator in the relationship between gender implicit biases and perceptions of follower claiming of men. Managers interested in shared leading processes may want to increase the entitativity of their groups or highlight the high levels of entitativity, especially if group members are susceptible to strong associations between man and leader.