Rewarding collaborative research: role congruity bias and the gender pay gap in academe

Research on academic pay finds an unexplained gender pay gap that has not fully dissolved over time and that appears to increase with years of experience. In this study, I consider how role congruity bias contributes to this pay gap. Bias is more likely to manifest in a context where there is some a...

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Main Author: Wiedman, Christine (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer [2019-04-26]
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 167, Issue: 4, Pages: 793-807
Further subjects:B Academic salaries
B Role congruity bias
B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
B Collaborative Work
B Gender pay gap
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