期刊
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
卷 62, 期 12, 页码 3636-3655出版社
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2015.2315
关键词
organizational studies; gender inequality; hiring processes; labor market intermediaries
资金
- Adecco Chair at London Business School
- William F. Pounds Professorship at the MIT Sloan School of Management
We study the sources of women's underrepresentation in hiring for top management jobs by focusing on the context of executive search. Using data that include proprietary information on 10,970 individuals considered by a search firm, we examine the sources of the low proportion of women placed in senior roles. Contrary to received wisdom, we find limited evidence that demand-side screeners strongly contribute to gender disadvantage in this setting. What gender differences exist tend to play out at the start of the hiring process and are driven both by supply-side and demand-side actors. Once considered for a position, women are no less likely than men to be hired-though they are slightly less likely to be interviewed by the search firm. Our findings highlight the theoretical importance of disentangling candidates' self-steering behavior from the pipeline bending of hiring agents. We discuss the implications of our results for understanding gender inequality at upper echelons of the labor market.
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