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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w27606 |
来源ID | Working Paper 27606 |
Challenges of Change: An Experiment Promoting Women to Managerial Roles in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector | |
Rocco Macchiavello; Andreas Menzel; Atonu Rabbani; Christopher Woodruff | |
发表日期 | 2020-08-03 |
出版年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Women remain disadvantaged in access to management positions around the world. We conduct a field experiment with 24 large garment factories in Bangladesh to test for inefficient representation of women among line supervisors. We identify the marginal female and male candidates for supervisory positions and randomly assign them to manage production lines. Three sets of results emerge: (i) extensive diagnostic testing at baseline reveal few skill differences between marginal female and male supervisor candidates; (ii) initially, marginal female candidates have lower productivity and evaluations from sub-ordinate workers, though after four to six months, these gaps disappear; and (iii) the share of the female candidates retained as line supervisor after the trial is significantly higher than the share of female supervisors in the factories at baseline. This suggests that factories previously promoted fewer women than would have been optimal. Additional surveys and a lab-in-the-field experiment suggest that the initially worse performance stems from negative beliefs of workers about the abilities of female supervisors. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Discrimination ; Other ; Accounting, Marketing, and Personnel ; Development and Growth ; Development |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27606 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585278 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rocco Macchiavello,Andreas Menzel,Atonu Rabbani,et al. Challenges of Change: An Experiment Promoting Women to Managerial Roles in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector. 2020. |
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