Gender Differences in Self-Promotion and Career Advice

Rigissa Megalokonomou (), Juliana Silva-Goncalves () and Roel van Veldhuizen ()
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Rigissa Megalokonomou: Department of Economics, Monash University, Postal: Caulfield Campus, , ​Melbourne, , Australia
Juliana Silva-Goncalves: ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, The University of Sydney, Postal: Sydney, , Australia
Roel van Veldhuizen: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: School of Economics and Management, Box 7080, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden

No 2025:11, Working Papers from Lund University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We study the role of self-promotion and career advice in sustaining gender differences in labor market outcomes. We conduct an online experiment in which “advisers” advise “workers” to choose between a more ambitious and a less ambitious task based on the worker’s subjective self-assessment. We find that women have lower self-assessments and receive less ambitious career advice as a result. We also show that these gender differences are similar for both quantitative and qualitative self-assessments, and that the gender difference in advice received can be mitigated by informing advisers of the worker’s true performance or of the gender gap in self-promotion.

Keywords: Advice; Gender; Self-Promotion; Randomized Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D91 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 99 pages
Date: 2025-12-12
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