American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Are Female Supervisors More Female-Friendly?
American Economic Review
vol. 104,
no. 5, May 2014
(pp. 370–75)
Abstract
We introduce the idea that easily inferable demographic characteristics such as gender may not be sufficient to define type in the supervisor-employee mentoring relationship. We use longitudinal data on athletic directors at NCAA Division I programs to identify through observed mobility the propensity of top-level administrators to hire and retain female head coaches, above and beyond an organization's culture. We show that supervisor gender appears to be unrelated to female friendliness in this setting. Overall, our findings indicate that more focus should be placed on the more complex manager type defined by attitudes in addition to attributes.Citation
Bednar, Steven, and Dora Gicheva. 2014. "Are Female Supervisors More Female-Friendly?" American Economic Review 104 (5): 370–75. DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.5.370Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- M12 Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation