Evaluating Competence: Effects of Sex, Marital Status, and Parental Status
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychology of Women Quarterly
- Vol. 6 (2) , 196-203
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1981.tb00407.x
Abstract
Three hundred sixty eight female and male college students read a corn-pitted job application and an article written by the applicant. Both the job and the article were in non-sex-typed fields. The applicant was described as either female or male, single or married, and having one or no children. Subjects answered eight evaluative questions concerning the competence of the applicant and the merits of the article. Females were devalued by both male and female subjects, but particularly by males. Applicants of both sexes who were married and childless were evaluated more favorably than applicants who were single and had a child.Keywords
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