Gender differences in private and public goal setting

We conduct a field and an online classroom experiment to study gender differences in self-set performance goals their effects on real-effort task. distinguish between public private goals, being identifiable both cases. Participants set significantly more ambitious when these are public. Women choose lower than men treatments. Men perform better women under as well the absence of goal setting, consistent with identifiability causing differences, found other studies. Compared setting does not affect men's at all but it leads women's lower. Comparing actual we find that is average 67% whereas for 57%. Under corresponding percentages 43% 39%, respectively.