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Gender and racial diversity in tech is a persistent issue in the United States. Efforts to increase diversity may not be effective due to moral licensing and viewing underrepresented groups interchangeably. Moral licensing has focused on effects within one identity (displays of feminist beliefs leading to sexist actions). We test whether moral licensing can reverberate across identities: cross-identity moral licensing (displays of feminist beliefs leading to racist actions). Study 1, showed no effects of moral licensing on hiring decisions using the original manipulation. In Study 2, hiring managers in the tech sector completed two successive hiring rounds, with the first designed to license the second. White women were negatively impacted by same-identity and cross-identity moral licensing, while there were no effects of moral licensing for Black men. This work provides preliminary evidence that cross-identity moral licensing could help explain why efforts to increase representation fall short for women in tech. |
