Warsaw Economic Seminars – “The Obstinacy of Gender Stereotypes: Evidence from the Found-in-Translation Task” [27.10.2022]
We kindly invite you to take part in the next meeting within the Warsaw Economic Seminars series, organised jointly by the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw and the Warsaw School of Economics.
During the meeting Patrycja Janowska-Widomska, M.A., student of Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of the University of Warsaw will present the paper “The Obstinacy of Gender Stereotypes: Evidence from the Found-in-Translation Task” prepared jointly with prof. Michał Krawczyk.
Abstract:
The pursuit of science (especially exact sciences) is commonly associated with the male gender. This might have a lot of negative consequences, including discrimination and underrepresentation of female researchers at academia. We conduct two experiments with a series of conditions that make it gradually easier to avoid misattribution of gender of a female scholar. In a novel Found-in-Translation Task (FITT), we ask respondents to translate a short text concerning a male or a female academic from a gender-indistinguishable language (English) to a gender-discriminating language (Polish). The gender of the academic in question is not explicitly provided but can (and should) be googled in seconds. We find that male academics’ gender is almost never misattributed. By contrast, females’ gender is misattributed with frequency exceeding 80% even if the subject field is actually highly feminized and even if we encourage using Internet sources to avoid mistakes and we provide incentives to do so. Additionally, using the Implicit Association Test we check respondents’ implicit attitudes towards women and men in exact sciences and humanities and find some correlation with gender misattributions.
The seminar will take place on October 27th at 5 p.m. in hybrid mode: in room B202 at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw (Długa 44/50) and via Zoom platform.
Link to the meeting:
https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/94952861067?pwd=eWFxK0N3SWJJdUNtZUQ4RDYxQ1loZz09
Meeting ID: 949 5286 1067
Passcode: 149259
The calendar of all seminars within the Warsaw Economic Seminars series is available on the website: https://sites.google.com/site/warsaweconseminars/calendar
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The aim of the Warsaw Economic Seminars series is to create a platform for researchers and specialists from all over the world to present their research and share knowledge on economics and economic policy.
The participants can both listen to presentations and take part in discussions and present their own research to get feedback from other researchers and students.
