【Brownbag】Closing the Gender Gap in Willingness to Contribute Ideas: A Lean-in Intervention
2024/07/26
研討會日期 : 2024-07-26
時間 : 12:10
主講人 : Yu-Hsin Ho (何雨忻)
地點 : B110會議室
演講者簡介 : Yu-Hsin Ho is a graduate student in the Department of Economics at National Taiwan University. His research interests are Economics of Gender, Political Economy, and Labor Economics.
演講摘要 : Previous research shows individuals contribute fewer ideas when questions conflict with gender stereotypes, generating gender gaps in idea contributions and hurting group performance. We develop two “lean-in” interventions aimed at bridging such gender gap and mitigating its adverse effects on group dynamics. These interventions give precedence to either men's or women's responses, while allowing participants to opt out costlessly to effectively neutralize this preferential treatment. In a pre-registered lab experiment, we find that these interventions successfully foster idea contributions, in both stereotypically congruent and incongruent fields, without compromising group performance. Men are more susceptible than women to the interventions in previously shy-away fields. These findings can be explained by people showing no extra aversion to self-promotion in stereotypically incongruent fields. We find no evidence of backlash against those favored by preferential treatment.
