GenderDiscrimination

No, It's Not Your Imagination; We're Biased Against Women

Readers of The Washington Post recently chose a male over a female writer to be the Post's new guest pundit. That's not necessarily news, because his writing may very well be better than hers. But, the question that many of us have is this: did the winner's gender influence the judges? In other words, by identifying the gender of the writers, did the Post unintentionally conduct a biased contest? Two classic studies would seem to suggest so. The first is a 2000 study by economists Claudia Goldin of Harvard and Cecilia Rouse of Princeton on discrimination in orchestra hiring practices. Until ...

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