Monday, 10 February 2020

Addressing gender inequality via choice architecture

a column by Joyce He, Sonia Kang and Nicola Lacetera for VOX: CEPR&rsquo's Policy Portal

Many work environments require their employees to apply for promotions, a process that results in fewer women opting to compete.

This column presents evidence to suggest that changing promotion schemes to a default where everyone is considered but has the option to ‘opt out’ could help close the gender gap in applications to compete for promotions.

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This was, to me, a novel approach to the issue of ensuring that women are at least considered for promotion,

Labels:
gender_gap, competition, promotion, opt-in_versus_opt-out,


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