The effects of gender integration on men. Evidence from the U.S. military.

Autor/inn/en	Greenberg, Kyle; Wasserman, Melanie; Weber, E. Anna
Titel	The effects of gender integration on men. Evidence from the U.S. military.
Quelle	Munich: CESifo (2024), ca. 94 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CESifo working papers. 11559
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monografie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Wahrnehmung; Frau; Geschlechtsspezifischer Unterschied; Diskriminierung; Militär; Soldat; Arbeitsleistung; Arbeitsmarkt; Arbeitsverhalten; Berufliche Integration; Mann; USA
Abstract	Do men negatively respond when women first enter an occupation? We answer this question by studying the end of one of the final explicit occupational barriers to women in the U.S.: in 2016, the U.S. military opened all positions to women, including historically male-only combat occupations. We exploit the staggered integration of women into combat units to estimate the causal effects of the introduction of female colleagues on men's job performance, behavior, and perceptions of workplace quality, using monthly administrative personnel records and rich survey responses. We find that integrating women into previously all-male units does not negatively affect men's performance or behavioral outcomes, including retention, promotions, demotions, separations for misconduct, criminal charges, and medical conditions. Most of our results are precise enough to rule out small, detrimental effects. However, there is a wedge between men's perceptions and performance. The integration of women causes a negative shift in male soldiers' perceptions of workplace quality, with the effects driven by units integrated with a woman in a position of authority. We discuss how these findings shed light on the roots of occupational segregation by gender.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2025/2