The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
- Datum: 15.12.2021
- Uhrzeit: 16:00
- Vortragende(r): Christine Exley, Harvard Business School
- Ort: Zoom meeting
- Raum: Please contact Zita Green for Zoom link: green@coll.mpg.de
We run a series
of experiments, involving over 4,000 online participants and over 10,000 school-aged youth. When individuals are asked to subjectively describe
their performance on a male-typed task relating to math and science, we find a large gender
gap in self-evaluations. This gap arises both when self-evaluations are provided to potential
employers, and thus measure self-promotion, and when self-evaluations are not driven by
incentives to promote. The gender gap in self-evaluations proves persistent and arises as early
as the sixth grade. No gender gap arises, however, if individuals are instead asked about their
performance on a more female-typed task.