- Speaker
- Date
- Monday 25 Nov 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Room 4.01
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
During this Research in Progress Seminar at the International Institute of Social Studies, Rashid Memon will argue that discrimination in the modern world has become subtle and implicit - - colleagues discriminate against female colleagues by mansplaining and ignoring their input.
He argues that gender gaps in labour market outcomes persist despite remarkable improvements in women’s human capital stock.
'Real effort' evidence collection
He collected evidence on this hypothesis from a novel real effort task that he conducted with University students in Pakistan and the United Kingdom. Participants respond to a series of difficult trivia questions, first independently and, subsequently, with advice from a fellow subject and an opportunity to revise their answer. In the control, subjects receive only a piece of advice from a randomly selected advisor.
Findings
He found conditional evidence that men in both countries and women in the UK reduce listening to women once gender is revealed. Men in Pakistan reduce advice uptake in mathematical questions while men and women in the UK reduce uptake in questions related to literature, language and culture. On provision of information on female advisors' competence, men in both countries increase advice uptake from women in mathematics and language but women in the United Kingdom remain unaffected.
About the speaker
Dr Rashid Memon is an Assistant Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He holds a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research.
Rashid's research focuses primarily on the implications of social and political identity for economic outcomes. He also has a long standing interest in internal and international migration (in) from South Asia, and the poverty alleviating role of micro-credit. He uses both quantitative and qualitative survey data for his research, but is increasingly moving towards lab experiments.