【Applied seminar】Gender Bias in Competitive Music Composition Evaluation: An Experimental Study
2022/03/29
研討會日期 : 2022-03-29
時間 : 10:45
主講人 : Professor Yating Chuang (莊雅婷)
地點 : Conference Room B110
主持人 : Professor Tzu-Ting Yang
演講者簡介 : Professor Chuang received her Ph.D. in Agricultural & Applied Economics from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2015. She is currently an Assistant Professor at National Taipei University. Her research interests are Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Social Network Analysis.
演講摘要 : Women’s underrepresentation in science has drawn attention from scholars in many disciplines. Our study aims to advance understanding on this issue through examining the extreme case of gender imbalance in music composition. We conducted an audit experiment to examine whether such gender imbalance is due to unfair judgment in evaluative settings. We invited composition faculty to rate new compositions with randomly assigned gendered names along with live recordings directed by the same conductor. Contrary to our hypotheses, we do not observe gender bias against women. Instead, there is evidence that compositions associated with female names are rated higher than those with male names. There is no evidence of in-group bias either: reviewers do not favor compositions from composers of their genders. In the heterogeneity analysis, we find suggestive evidence that male faculty and senior faculty favor female composers in both general and structured evaluations.
