Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Babcock, Linda; Recalde, Maria P.; Vesterlund, Lise; Weingart, Laurie
• 署名单位: Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University; CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; National Bureau of Economic Research; Carnegie Mellon University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20141734
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 714-747
• 关键词: sex-differences; women; game; men; performance; conformity; service; time; gap; say

摘要

Gender differences in task allocations may sustain vertical gender segregation in labor markets. We examine the allocation of a task that everyone prefers be completed by someone else (writing a report, serving on a committee, etc.) and find evidence that women, more than men, volunteer, are asked to volunteer, and accept requests to volunteer for such tasks. Beliefs that women, more than men, say yes to tasks with low promotability appear as an important driver of these differences. If women hold tasks that are less promotable than those held by men, then women will progress more slowly in organizations.