Gender bias hits male managers in female-stereotyped jobs

A new study co-authored by Desautels Professor Laura Doering looks at the role gender played in missed payments at a microfinance bank.

What the authors discovered was that clients who associated their bank manager’s job as a “female” role were more likely to miss payments. In a wider sense, male managers tend to enjoy less authority when filling a job that was previously done by a woman.

Prof. Doering says that “This finding is consistent with previous research showing that people tend to afford more authority to male managers.”

The authors then make suggestions about how to mitigate workplace gender bias.

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