Publishing while Female. Are women held to higher standards? Evidence from peer review.

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Impostor phenomenon and motivation: women in higher education (2020, background): “…increased standards, stress, pay inequality, exclusion, and harassment these elevated costs may contribute to diminished motivation towards academia (Austin 2016; Obers 2015; Howe-Walsh and Turnbull 2016; Monroe and Chiu 2010; Biggs, Hawley, and Biernat 2017; Newsome 2008; Hengel 2017; Smith 2017).”
Gender and international diversity improves equity in peer review (2018, background): “Furthermore, women have been found to be 68 less likely to compete [48] and hold themselves to higher standards [49], hence they 69 may self-select a higher quality of work for submission to prestigious journals.”
Men, women and STEM: Why the differences and what should be done? (2020, background): “• Economics papers authored by women need to be better written to be accepted into top-tier journals (Hengel, 2017).”
Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?* (2019, methodology): “Across all these specifications, we find no difference by the author gender mix.19 Thus, unlike in the analysis of Hengel (2018), referee and editorial delays appear to be gender-neutral, a pattern also visible in Online Appendix Figures 8a-c.”