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Women compete just as hard as men for top jobs and can win them more often, auction-style study suggests

New behavioral economics research on gender and competition, using bidding experiments, finds no overall gender gap in competitiveness; where a gap does appear, it is women who push hardest for the highest positions.

Women compete just as hard as men for top jobs and can win them more often, auction-style study suggests
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New behavioral economics research on gender and competition, using bidding experiments, finds no overall gender gap in competitiveness; where a gap does appear, it is women who push hardest for the highest positions.

Originally published at Phys.org

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