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Gend. Issues (2017) 34:86102
DOI 10.1007/s12147-016-9175-4
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Published online: 7 October 2016 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Abstract The current study examined how individual difference characteristics of an evaluator could affect real-world decisions, such as hiring decisions. Specically, this study examined the gender role traditionalism of an evaluator, and whether this traditionalism interacted with occupational stereotypes during a laboratory simulated hiring decision. Gender role stereotypes were activated using a priming task, then participants evaluated male and female job applicants on a variety of work-related skills, ultimately selecting applicants for either a traditionally masculine or feminine position. Analyses revealed that applicants were more often selected for a position in which the occupation stereotype matched their gender suggesting an effect of an evaluators gender role traditionalism. In addition, those participants indicating that they held more traditional gender role beliefs tended to favor male applicants in their evaluations. Finally, the activation of ideas incongruent with traditional gender role stereotypes resulted in higher ratings on work-related skills from all participants, though these ratings did not seem to impact the overall hiring decision. This study highlights the impact of individual difference characteristics of an evaluator during a hiring decision, and identies some possible ways to move toward a more impartial hiring process to reduce gender biases in hiring.
This study was conducted as part of the rst authors doctoral dissertation research at the University of Alabama. The authors would like to thank the dissertation committee that provided comments on this research including William P. Hart, Debra M. McCallum, Beverly Roskos, and Alexa Tullett from The University of Alabama. Finally, the rst author would like to dedicate this manuscript in loving memory of Aspen, a faithful companion present for many aspects of this research.
& Lindsay Rice
1 Department of Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Box 42051, Lubbock,
TX 79409-2051, USA
2 Institute for Social Science Research, University of Alabama, Box 870216, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0216, USA
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Web End = A Tale of Two Gender Roles: The Effects of Implicit and Explicit Gender Role Traditionalismand Occupational Stereotype on Hiring Decisions
Lindsay Rice1 Joan M. Barth2
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Keywords Gender roles Stereotyping Hiring decisions Occupation stereotypes
Introduction
Gender role stereotypes have...
