February 06, 2024 | 03:00 PM
Keep your Tuesday afternoon free as we bring you a dose of insights with our interesting Wisdom Cafe seminar. Join us as Prof. Moumita Roy speaks on a rather buzzworthy topic: Are Students Really Biased Against Female Professors? Experimental Evidence from India. The session will be astutely moderated by Prof. Puneet Arora (Assistant Professor, Economics & Public Policy, MDI Gurgaon).
Date: 6th February 2024 (Tuesday)
Time : 3 PM
Venue: Chanakya Building Classroom 2 (Ground Floor)
Sharing session’s abstract here: The talk is based on the investigation of gender bias presence in student evaluation of teaching (SET) scores with a natural field experiment in India. The team employed a novel experimental design, randomly assigning 504 economics students to an identical audiovisual class taught either in a female or male voice. There were no significant differences in ratings given between female or male professors across any teaching dimension. However, when additional information about a professor’s professional accomplishments is provided, female professors receive higher ratings on average. The effect comes mainly from female students, who increase the ratings of female professors and lower the ratings of male professors. Our findings suggest that gender bias is context-dependent and provide evidence of the effectiveness of an information mechanism that can help shift perceptions about female professors.