In Some Professions Women Have Become Well-Represented, Yet Gender Bias Persists – Perpetuated by Those Who Think It Is Not Happening
dc.contributor.author | Begeny, CT | |
dc.contributor.author | Ryan, MK | |
dc.contributor.author | Moss-Racusin, CA | |
dc.contributor.author | Ravetz, G | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-29T09:12:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-06-24 | |
dc.description.abstract | In efforts to promote equality and combat potential gender bias, traditionally male-occupied professions are investing resources into hiring more women. Looking forward, if women do become well-represented in a profession, does this mean equality has been achieved? Are issues of bias resolved? Two studies including a randomized double-blind experiment demonstrate that biases can persist even when women become well-represented (evinced in veterinary medicine). Evidence included managers evaluating an employee randomly assigned a male (vs. female) name as more competent, and advising a $3,475.00 higher salary, equating to an 8% pay gap. Importantly, those who thought bias was not happening in their field were the key drivers of it – a ‘high risk’ group (including men and women) that, as shown, can be readily identified/assessed. Thus, as other professions make gains in women’s representation it will be vital to recognize that discrimination can persist – perpetuated by those who think it not happening. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Research Council | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 6 (26), eaba7814 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1126/sciadv.aba7814 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ERC-CoG 725128 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/121692 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science | en_GB |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.title | In Some Professions Women Have Become Well-Represented, Yet Gender Bias Persists – Perpetuated by Those Who Think It Is Not Happening | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-29T09:12:25Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2375-2548 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from American Association for the Advancement of Science via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Data and materials availability: Anonymous data corresponding to study 1 and study 2 analyses are available from the Open Science Framework repository (https://osf.io/wgme6/). Code used for primary analyses is available upon request from the first author. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Science Advances | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-05-01 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-05-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-05-12T16:38:12Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-06-29T09:12:30Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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