Gender Differences in Advice Giving

It is well documented that women are underrepresented in higher management positions. Such positions usually require providing advice to employees and peers. If women are more reluctant to give advice than men, that may be a contributing factor in fewer women holding higher positions. In “Gender Differences in Advice Giving,” Economist Elif Osun explores whether women are more reluctant to give advice than men and investigates the effect of the enforceability of advice on women’s decision to provide it. She concludes that women are less likely to send their guess as advice than men and that the gender gap in willingness to provide advice is closely related to the difficulty of the issue at hand.

Read the article in Experimental Economics.