On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions

Kouroutakis, Antonios

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On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions

dc.contributor.author	Kouroutakis, Antonios
dc.contributor.ror	https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.date.accessioned	2025-02-13T18:45:37Z
dc.date.available	2025-02-13T18:45:37Z
dc.date.issued	2023-11-10
dc.description.abstract	A preregistered meta-analysis, including 244 effect sizes from 85 field audits and 361,645 individual job ap plications, tested for gender bias in hiring practices in female-stereotypical and gender-balanced as well as malestereotypical jobs from 1976 to 2020. A “red team” of independent experts was recruited to increase the rigor and robustness of our meta-analytic approach. A forecasting survey further examined whether laypeople (n = 499 nationally representative adults) and scientists (n = 312) could predict the results. Forecasters correctly antic ipated reductions in discrimination against female candidates over time. However, both scientists and laypeople overestimated the continuation of bias against female candidates. Instead, selection bias in favor of male over female candidates was eliminated and, if anything, slightly reversed in sign starting in 2009 for mixed-gender and male-stereotypical jobs in our sample. Forecasters further failed to anticipate that discrimination against male candidates for stereotypically female jobs would remain stable across the decades.
dc.description.peerreviewed	yes
dc.description.status	Published
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dc.identifier.citation	Schaerer, M., Du Plessis, C., Nguyen, M. H. B., Van Aert, R. C., Tiokhin, L., Lakens, D., ... & Gender Audits Forecasting Collaboration. (2023). On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 179, 104280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104280
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104280
dc.identifier.issn	1095-9920
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3550
dc.journal.title	Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
dc.language.iso	en
dc.page.total	26
dc.publisher	Science Direct
dc.relation.department	Marketing & Communication
dc.relation.entity	IE University
dc.relation.school	IE Business School
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed
dc.subject.keyword	Gender
dc.subject.keyword	Discrimination
dc.subject.keyword	Field experiments
dc.subject.keyword	Meta-analysis
dc.subject.keyword	Open science Forecasting
dc.title	On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions
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dc.volume.number	179
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