What Workplace Composition Are Job Candidates Looking For?

Rachel Schuh

No 20260219, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Why do workers still segregate by sex across occupations, industries, and firms? Recent research has focused on how preferences for job amenities, like flexibility, may differ by sex. However, one “amenity” that has received relatively little attention is the sex composition of a job itself. In a recent paper, I conducted a survey experiment to estimate men’s and women’s preferences for sex composition in the workplace. One result is that women and young single men prefer jobs with at least half female coworkers.

Keywords: workplace preferences; workplace composition; female; Male; labor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J2 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-02-19
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DOI: 10.59576/lse.20260219

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