Arbeitspapier
Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?
I hire 2,700 workers for a transcription job, randomly assigning the gender of their (fictitious) manager and provision of performance feedback. While praise from a manager has no effect, criticism negatively impacts workers' job satisfaction and perception of the task's importance. When female managers, rather than male, deliver this feedback, the negative effects double in magnitude. Having a critical female manager does not affect effort provision but it does lower workers' interest in working for the firm in the future. These findings hold for both female and male workers. I show that results are consistent with gendered expectations of feedback among workers. By contrast, I find no evidence for the role of either attention discrimination or implicit gender bias.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12611
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General
Labor Discrimination: General
- Subject
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gender discrimination
gig economy
female leadership
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Abel, Martin
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2019
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Abel, Martin
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2019
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