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gender bias in recommendation letters: a standalone construct

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Organizational behavior

the pattern that letters for women use more communal and fewer agentic terms than letters for men, which lowers hiring evaluations.

In organizational behavior, gender bias in recommendation letters refers to the pattern that letters for women use more communal and fewer agentic terms than letters for men, which lowers hiring evaluations. This meaning comes from Madera (2009) in Journal of Applied Psychology.[1]

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References

Madera, J. M., Hebl, M. R., & Martin, R. C. (2009). Gender and letters of recommendation for academia: Agentic and communal differences. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(6), 1591-1599. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016539

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