Thread by @ImHardcory

1. New meta-analysis of 85 studies testing gender bias in hiring practices & forecasting surveys asking scientists & laypeople to predict the results found:

-Post-2009, hiring biases favor females
-Scientists & laypeople wildly overestimate gender bias
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

2. This meta included 44 years of field audit studies (in which carefully-matched female & male job applications are sent to real orgs) testing for gender biases in callback rates for female-
stereotypical, gender neutral, & male-stereotypical jobs

3. For male-typed jobs, males used to be favored & now no gender bias is observed

For gender neutral jobs, males used to be favored & now females are

For female-typed jobs, females were & are still favored

(ORs<1 = females favored)

4. Both academics & everyday people correctly anticipated that pro-male bias has been decreasing over time, but they also drastically overestimated pro-male bias in male-typed & gender-neutral jobs. Indeed, for later years, they had the direction backward: women are now favored.

5. Both academics & everyday people also drastically overestimated pro-female bias in female-typed jobs. And they anticipated that this bias has also been decreasing over time, but it does not appear to be. Women always were and still are favored for these jobs.

6. Check out this massively impressive piece of work here led by the formidable @michaelschaerer: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…