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Gender Differences in Self-Promotion and Career Advice

Year: 2025

Type: report

Abstract: We study the role of self-promotion and career advice in sustaining gender differences in labor market outcomes. We conduct an online experiment in which "advisers" advise "workers" to choose between a more ambitious and a less ambitious task based on the worker's subjective self-assessment. We find that women have lower selfassessments and receive less ambitious career advice as a result. We also show that these gender differences are similar for both quantitative and qualitative self-assessments, and that the gender difference in advice received can be mitigated by informing advisers of the worker's true performance or of the gender gap in self-promotion.

Source: Econstor (Econstor)

Authors: Megalokonomou, Rigissa, Silva Goncalves, Juliana, van Veldhuizen, Roel

Language: English

Topic: Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7115823729

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