Who Does the Talking Here? The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Interactions

David Hardt, Lea Mayer and Johannes Rincke

No 10550, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We analyze how the gender composition of teams affects team interactions. In an online experiment, we randomly assign individuals to gender-homogenous or gender-mixed teams. Teams meet in an audio chat room and jointly work on a gender-neutral team task. By design, effects on team performance can only work through communication. We find that all-male teams communicate more than all-female teams and outperform teams of both alternative gender compositions. In mixed teams, males strongly dominate the team conversation quantitatively. Past exposure to gender-mixed teamwork makes females more reluctant to engage in mixed teams, while for males the opposite is true.

Keywords: teams; teamwork; gender composition; communication; team performance; preference for teamwork; online experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 C93 D83 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-gen, nep-hrm, nep-lab and nep-spo
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