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CEP Education and Skills Seminars

Joint with the Social Policy Department

Gender, language and performance in an international organisation

Marina Della Giusta (University of Turin), joint with Sylvia Jaworska (University of Reading), Giovanni Razzu (University of Reading) and Almudena Sevilla (LSE)


Tuesday 03 December 2024 16:00 - 17:00

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

About this event

Men are more likely than women to be described as analytical, competitive and agentic, all attributes associated with leadership and power. Organisations, therefore, often aim to address this bias by adopting the same language in the evaluations of men and women. Is this, however, an effective solution? We assess whether the use of same language in evaluation feedback is associated with gender gaps in performance outcomes and wheteher the gender of the evaluator matters. This requires data that capture, for the same individual, language and performance outcomes as well as the gender of the person providing feedback. We have available 1054 evaluation feedback given to individuals employed in an international organisation with expressed commitment to inclusion. We find that, despite equal number of agentive terms in feedback, women are more likely to be assessed as outperforming than men and that this result does depend strongly on the gender of the feedback provider.


Participants are expected to adhere to the CEP Events Code of Conduct.


Directions

This event will take place in SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH.

The building is labelled SAL on the LSE campus map. You can also find us on Google Maps. For further information, go to contact us.

Education and Skills Seminars are part of the CEP's Education and Skills programme.