promotions {moderndive}

Bank manager recommendations based on (binary) gender

Description

Data from a 1970's study on whether gender influences hiring recommendations. Originally used in OpenIntro.org.

Usage

promotions

Format

A data frame with 48 observations on the following 3 variables.

id

Identification variable used to distinguish rows.

gender

gender (collected as a binary variable at the time of the study): a factor with two levels male and female

decision

a factor with two levels: promoted and not

Source

Rosen B and Jerdee T. 1974. Influence of sex role stereotypes on personnel decisions. Journal of Applied Psychology 59(1):9-14.

See Also

The data in promotions is a slight modification of openintro::gender_discrimination().