Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

By Alison L. Booth, Andrew Leigh. Social Science Research Network, 2010

183 citations recorded by the source corpus.

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e1cfffeaebbfe6965eb529b9fc750592232a30bc

Citations in the corpus

• Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country (2014, unknown): “Finally, Booth and Leigh (2010) find discrimination against males in female-dominated occupations.”
• Field Experiments on Discrimination (2016, unknown): “Booth and Leigh (2010) focused on female-dominated professions (waitstaff, data-entry, customer service, and sales jobs) and found a call-back of 1.”
• Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, unknown): “Booth and Leigh (2010) examine four female-dominated occupations (with female share ranging from 65 to 85 percent female) which include waitstaff, dataentry, customer service, and sales jobs, and find that women in these jobs receive more callbacks 16Women may also choose to differentially invest…”
• Race and gender effects on employer interest in job applicants: new evidence from a resume field experiment (2016, unknown): “Gender-based gaps have also received considerable attention in the literature (e.g. see Blau and Kahn 2000; Booth and Leigh 2010; Croson and Gneezy 2009; Gerhart 1990; Riach and Rich 2006).”
• A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis (2013, unknown): “Rather than being an explanatory variable, prior knowledge has the effect of perpetuating the vicious cycle of discrimination described in Section 2.3.”