Revealing gender biases

• 6 Mar 2020

Paola Sapienza has conducted research on the stereotypes that impair women’s careers in the sciences. In one of her experiments, MBA students were asked to perform an arithmetic task. A male and a female student in the group were asked to stand up, and the other group members had to choose one of them to represent them and perform the arithmetic task. Participants were rewarded if they had picked the person that performed better. The result: Both male and female students in the group were twice as likely to choose a man than a woman.