TABLE 3.
Treatment text for survey experiment.
Treatment name | Treatment text |
Same effort | The man and the woman have worked equally hard in their career. For example, both regularly studied on the weekends while their friends were out partying. |
Same suffering | The man and the woman would suffer equally much from not getting the job. For example, both are currently unemployed, but have enough savings so that they could go without getting a paycheck for another 4 weeks. Also, both would find it equally hard to get a new job. Neither of them has to support a family. |
No discrimination | The job is in an industry where there is no gender discrimination. A number of studies have convincingly shown that in this industry neither men nor women face discrimination in hiring decisions, nor do they face any other unfair treatment by coworkers or supervisors because of their gender. |
All constant | The man and the woman would suffer equally much from not getting the job, the man and the woman have worked equally hard in their career, and the job is in an industry with no gender discrimination. |
We use bold here as we did in the actual survey.