The Bank Job: A Field Study of Sexually Discriminatory Performance on a Neutral‐Role Task

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Abstract
Sixty‐four checks were cashed in a field examination of sex role discrimination using a non‐sex‐role stereotyped (neutral role) task. Experimenter (customer) sex, subject (teller) sex, amount of the check, and bank branch were varied to produce a 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 design. Transaction times were longer for female customers than for male customers, and were longer with male tellers than with female tellers. Results were interpreted as supporting the hypothesis of greater sex role salience in cross‐sex, as compared with same‐sex dyads. Suggestions are made for further research using neutral‐role tasks to better define certain role concepts.