Recent studies find that women are less competitive than men. This gender difference in competitiveness has been … when competing in a race. We here test if there is a gender gap in running among 7-10 year old Swedish children. We also … introduce two female sports, skipping rope and dancing, to see if competitiveness is task dependent. We find no gender …

Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …

Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …, two countries differing in gender equality according to macro indices. We include four types of tasks that vary in gender … gender gap in Sweden. -- competitiveness ; risk preferences ; children ; gender differences ; experiment …

task and country dependent. -- cooperation ; children ; gender differences ; experiment …

We look at gender differences in preferences for altruism, risk and competition in math and word search among … adolescents in Sweden. We find that girls are more altruistic and less risk taking than boys. We find no gender gap in performance … gender gap diminishes and becomes non significant when we control for relative performance beliefs, indicating that some of …

dependence in career choice and career progression is emphasized. -- Career choice ; Career incentives ; Gender equality …

attractiveness of the opponent. -- risk taking ; attractiveness ; chess ; gender differences …