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Studia Psychologica Vol.50, No.2, p.233-254, 2008

Title: STEREOTYPES AND PREJUDICE TOWARDS WOMEN MANAGERS: AN EXPERIMENTAL ILLUSTRATION USING THE GOLDBERG-PARADIGM IN A ROMANIAN SAMPLE
Author: Petru Lucian CURŞEU, Smaranda BOROŞ

Abstract: An experimental study based on Goldberg's paradigm was carried out to investigate stereotypical attitudes towards women managers in a mixed gender sample. 329 participants were asked to participate in a simulated personnel selection decision task. 166 participants had to choose between 2 resumes describing 2 men, while 163 participants had to choose between the same 2 resumes, but they were told that the first resume belonged to a woman. All participants were also asked to assess the managerial skills, orientation towards task and towards relations of both candidates. Results show a clear drop of preferences in the second experimental condition for the resume describing a woman compared with the preferences expressed by the participants in the first experimental condition for the same resume describing a man. Also, participants in the second experimental condition rated the male applicant's managerial skills, task orientation and relationships orientation higher than the female applicant's. However, contrary to what was expected, women raters were equally as discriminative against woman applicant as men raters were. This result does not support the prediction of the implicit social cognition theory and is explained by the traditional values of Romanian culture, in which women are much more perceived as being engaged in the private sphere than the public one.

Keywords: gender stereotypes, discrimination, women managers
Year: 2008, Volume: 50, Issue: 2 Page From: 233, Page To: 254



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