Under-achievement and the glass ceiling: Evidence from a TV game show
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- dc.contributor.author Hogarth, Robin M.ca
- dc.contributor.author Karelaia, Nataliaca
- dc.contributor.author Trujillo, Carlos Andrésca
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T10:50:25Z
- dc.date.available 2017-07-26T10:50:25Z
- dc.date.issued 2009-05-01
- dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:12:41Z
- dc.description.abstract We use a Colombian TV game show to test gender differences in competitive behavior where there is no opportunity for discrimination and females face no genderspecific external constraints. Each game started with six contestants who had to answer general knowledge questions in private. There were five rounds of questions and, at the end of each, one participant was eliminated. Despite equality in starting numbers, women earn less than men and exit the game at a faster rate. In particular, there are more voluntary withdrawals by women than men. We draw an analogy between the game and the process by which employees rise through the levels of a corporation. As such, we note that glass ceilings may result, in part, from women s own behavior and this raises the issue of how women are socialized to behave. At the same time, our results illustrate that maintaining and promoting gender diversity at the lower/middle ranks of organizations is necessary to obtain gender diversity at the top.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1165
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/5623
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1165
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- dc.subject.keyword discrimination
- dc.subject.keyword tv game shows
- dc.subject.keyword gender differences
- dc.subject.keyword glass ceilings
- dc.subject.keyword leex
- dc.subject.keyword Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- dc.title Under-achievement and the glass ceiling: Evidence from a TV game showca
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