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Gender Differences in Self-Promotion and Career Advice

Megalokonomou, Rigissa ; Silva Goncalves, Juliana and van Veldhuizen, Roel LU orcid (2025) In Working Papers 2025:11. p.1-97
Abstract
We study the role of self-promotion and career advice in sustaining gender differences in labor market outcomes. We conduct an online experiment in which “advisers” advise “workers” to choose between a more ambitious and a less ambitious task based on the worker’s subjective self-assessment. We find that women have lower self-assessments and receive less ambitious career advice as a result. We also show that these gender differences are similar for both quantitative and qualitative self-assessments, and that the gender difference in advice received can be mitigated by informing advisers of the worker’s true performance or of the gender gap in self-promotion.
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Advice, Gender, Self-Promotion, Randomized Experiment, C91, D91, J16
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2025:11
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