Reassessing the Gender-Competition Interface: an Interdisciplinary Meta-Analysis

The recognition of competition as a factor of inequality has led to the proliferation of studies of the impact of competition on career outcomes and the moderating categories. One of the categories that has received the most attention is gender. Disciplinary preferences for concepts and methods generate findings that are often difficult to generalize. Our meta-analysis suggests that the gender gap in competition may be overstated in past research. Gender-based differences are more significant when competition is measured using a personalized approach than in diffused competition. The gap is reduced when the research design distinguishes competition and related constructs. The gap is more pronounced in experimental studies. Our results imply that self-selection in competitive conditions can largely explain gender differences in performance under competition.

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