Gender and willingness to compete for high stakes

Empowering Women: Understanding Divorce, Equality, and Competition between Genders

“…Even in contexts outside the workplace, studies establish that men remain more competitive when stakes are high. Women avoid competing with men, and men also anticipate lower competitiveness of their female opponents (Buser et al, 2023). If the result of the competition includes rewards in the workplace, including pay rise and promotion, then men would keep rising higher than women.…”

“…In this case, the notion of gender equality means that genders have been identified and differentiated from each other to facilitate the empowerment of the gender that is perceived as oppressed. The gender of competitors is important even in real-world settings and not just in the field or lab experiments (Buser et al, 2023). Until studies prove that gender is not a predictor of competitiveness, the argument that the unwillingness to compete causes gender gaps will stand.…”

Fields of gold

“…Our study connects to a broader literature that uses TV shows to investigate individual economic decision making. Such an approach has been used to study, for example, decision making under risk(Beetsma and Schotman, 2001;Gertner, 1993;Jetter and Walker, 2018;Metrick, 1995;Post, Van den Assem, Baltussen, and Thaler, 2008), strategic decision making(Bennett and Hickman, 1993;Berk, Hughson, and Vandezande, 1996;Tenorio and Cason, 2002), discrimination(Antonovics, Arcidiacono, and Walsh, 2005;Levitt, 2004), cooperative behavior(Belot, Bhaskar, and van de Ven, 2010;List, 2004List, , 2006Turmunkh, Van den Assem, and Van Dolder, 2019; Thaler, 2012), bargaining (van Dolder, van den Assem, Camerer, andThaler, 2015), and competitiveness(Antonovics, Arcidiacono, and Walsh, 2009;Buser, van den Assem, and van Dolder, 2023;Hogarth, Karelaia, and Trujillo, 2012).…”