Merit-Based Pay Comes With Hidden Gender Discrimination
While controversial, a new study finds that when managers are asked to dole out pay based on performance, they often favor men, even when candidate performance is nearly identical.
Human Resource Executive Online reports that in the study performed by MIT and Indiana University professors, survey participants asked to hand out bonuses to fake employees of a fictional company typically gave men $50 more when they were told that “job performance ranked above all else.” This despite the fact that the fake employees had nearly identical job performance.
Female
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
Subscribe today!
To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber
Already a member? Sign in