Laboratory studies have documented that women often respond less favorably to
competition than men. Conditional on performance, men are often more eager to compete …

Women in organizations must grapple with a double‐bind stemming from conflicting
expectations toward them to exhibit both competition (per workplace norms) and …

Gneezy et al.(2003) offer a partial explanation for the wage gap between men and women.
In an experiment they found that women react less to competitive incentives. The task they …

In this paper, we experimentally test whether competing for a desired reward does not only
affect individuals' performance, but also their tendency to cheat. Recent doping scandals in …

Recent studies find that women are less competitive than men. This gender difference in
competitiveness has been suggested as one possible explanation for why men occupy the …

Despite the worldwide prestige of America's doctoral programs in the humanities, all is not
well in this area of higher education and hasn't been for some time. The content of graduate …

Do women perform worse than equally able men in stressful competitive settings? We ask
this question for competitions with a high payoff—admissions to tuition-free selective …

We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with
sabotage in a controlled lab experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal …

Purpose Although the number of women working in management accounting has increased,
the percentage of female executives in this area remains low. Previous studies examining …

This paper provides new evidence of gender differences in response to increased
competition, focusing on important life tasks performed in a regular social environment. The …