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    Gender Stereotypes in Deliberation and Team Decisions
    11 Feb 2019Working Paper Summaries

    Gender Stereotypes in Deliberation and Team Decisions

    by Katherine B. Coffman, Clio Bryant Flikkema, and Olga Shurchkov
    Professional success requires the ability to contribute ideas, and receive credit for them. This paper explores gender differences in how men and women communicate and reward each other in team decision-making problems. We find that women are recognized less often for their contributions in male-typed domains.
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    We run an experiment that features a novel task with deliberation to explore how stereotypes shape group decision-making. We find that women are less likely to be rewarded for their ideas in male-typed domains when gender is known. This is partly due to discrimination and partly due to differences in self-promotion. External analysis of the chat data provides further insights. Though men and women do not vary in their communication styles, coders display pervasive stereotypes, associating warmth with women and competence and negativity with men. We also find that warmer participants, particularly warmer women, are under-rewarded by their groups.

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    • Working Paper Publication Date: January 2019
    • HBS Working Paper Number: HBS Working Paper #19-069
    • Faculty Unit(s): Negotiation, Organizations & Markets
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