Fig. 1.

Hirability of identically qualified candidates with matching lifestyles shown by field: percentage of faculty members ranking the applicant number one. Faculty members exhibit approximately a 2:1 preference for hiring women assistant professors over identically qualified men. Faculty members of both genders in all four fields expressed a strong hiring preference for female over male applicants with identical qualifications and lifestyles, compared across faculty in six counterbalanced experimental conditions (n = 339: 171 women and 168 men; χ² = 40.38; P < 0.0001, excluding tied ranks and choice of foil), with the exception of male economists, who ranked both genders equivalently. Engineering data include validation sample of 35 engineering faculty.