Do Women Choose Different Jobs from Men? Mechanisms of Application Segregation in the Market for Managerial Workers

The authors are very grateful to Forrest Briscoe, Emilio Castilla, Lisa Cohen, Roberto Fernandez, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, Alexandra Kalev, Katherine Klein, Herminia Ibarra, Barbara Lawrence, Mandy O’Neill, Nancy Rothbard, Valery Yakubovich, Pamela Tolbert, two anonymous reviewers, and audiences at Wharton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the European Group for Organization Studies, the American Sociological Association, and the Labor and Employment Research Association for their helpful comments and suggestions.