Parasurama, Prasanna; Sedoc, João; Ghose, Anindya - 2022
develop a measure of gender-incongruence – i.e. a measure of how much the self-presented gender characteristics in the resume … deviate from the self-reported gender of the candidate. Using this measure along with historical hiring data from technology … firms, we test whether applicants whose resume gender characteristics deviate from their actual gender (i.e. male resumes …