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The effect of gender and parenting daughters on judgments of morally controversial companies
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 12, p e0260503 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.
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Abstract
- Earlier findings suggest that men with daughters make judgments and decisions somewhat in line with those made by women. In this paper, we attempt to extend those findings, by testing how gender and parenting daughters affect judgments of the appropriateness of investing in and working for morally controversial companies (“sin stocks”). To do so, in Study 1 (N = 634) we investigate whether women judge the prospect of investing in sin stocks more harshly than men do, and test the hypothesis that men with daughters judge such investments less favorably than other men. In Study 2 (N = 782), we investigate the willingness to work in morally controversial companies at a significant wage premium. Results show that—for men—parenting daughters yields harsher evaluations of sin stocks, but no evidence that it lowers the propensity to work in such companies. This contrasts to the effect of gender: women reliably judge both investment and employment in morally controversial companies more harshly than men do. We suggest that an aversion towards morally controversial companies might be a partial determinant of the gender gap in wages.
- Subjects :
- Male
Economics
Social Sciences
Families
Cognition
Sociology
Salaries
Psychology
Children
health care economics and organizations
media_common
Schools
Multidisciplinary
Parenting
Age Factors
Middle Aged
Investment (macroeconomics)
humanities
Test (assessment)
Medicine
Female
Gender gap
Social psychology
Research Article
Employment
Adult
Science
media_common.quotation_subject
Decision Making
Wage
Morals
Affect (psychology)
Education
Nuclear Family
Judgment
Sex Factors
Humans
Investments
Models, Statistical
Salaries and Fringe Benefits
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Social Status
Age Groups
Labor Economics
People and Places
Cognitive Science
Population Groupings
Finance
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....accda3ef4f465b31b0557c07fca48bec