Gender, performance level, and competence standards in task groups
| Autor: | Martha Foschi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Adolescent Sociology and Political Science Inequality media_common.quotation_subject Education Developmental psychology law.invention Interviews as Topic Young Adult Professional Competence Sex Factors Microcomputers Randomized controlled trial Sex factors law Surveys and Questionnaires Task Performance and Analysis Humans Prospective Studies Competence (human resources) Reference standards media_common Analysis of Variance Social perception Visual task Reference Standards Professional competence Achievement Social Perception Female Psychology Social psychology Prejudice |
| Zdroj: | Social Science Research. 38:447-457 |
| ISSN: | 0049-089X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2008.10.004 |
| Popis: | Male and female undergraduates (N=240) participated in opposite-sex dyads and worked on a computerized visual task presented as "masculine." Participants in the eight experimental conditions received either higher or lower scores than their partner; this phase was omitted in the two control conditions. In turn, half of the experimental groups received universal competence-standards from the experimenter, while the other half set standards by themselves. In the second phase, the two persons worked on the task as a team. The central hypothesis is that subject-generated standards will favor the men, and that this will result in the women being perceived as having less competence even if achieving the same performance-level as men; this inequality is predicted to no longer be maintained in the groups with experimenter-set standards. Measures include rejection of influence, perceived ability in self and partner, and level of acceptance of both the stated sex-linkage of the task and the experimenter-set standard. Results and their interpretation are presented and discussed in detail. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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