Gender and Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments

Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found many laboratory-based experiments, and it has suggested that these may arise because men women respond differently to psychological pressure competitive environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, measured gender four distinct situations. These were as follows: (i) the standard tournament game where subject competes with three other individuals winner takes all; (ii) an anonymized which individual against imposed production target is only if s/he exceeds it; (iii) 'personified' based on previous of one anonymised person unknown gender; (iv) 'gendered' whose known. We each situation; responded same no matter situation. Moreover, personified caused increase more than and, when associated was revealed, worked even harder outperform woman but strived equal set by male.