A large number of studies suggest that in experimental reward
allocation scenarios, females tend to underreward themselves vis‐à‐vis similarly situated males. However, the
principal studies date from the 1970s and early 1980s. In the past
decade there has been a substantial public policy effort, reflected in
employment equity legislation and organization‐level initiatives,
targeting direct and systemic gender‐based discriminatory practices.
There is some evidence that gender‐based discriminatory employment
practices are receding. In this study, involving 127 undergraduate
business administration students, the student allocator′s gender was not
a significant predictor of reward allocation behaviour. Even more
provocative, the results suggest that a reward allocation bias
systematically operated in favour of women.
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