%0 Journal Article
%T Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Behavioral Norms in the Labor Market
%A Marina Mileo Gorsuch
%J ILR Review
%@ 2162-271X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0019793919832273
%X The author examines bias and behavioral norms based on sex and sexual orientation in the labor market. Using an online laboratory setting, participants were asked to evaluate r¨¦sum¨¦s that were manipulated on sex, perceived LGBT status, and use of traditionally masculine or feminine adjectives. Findings show that male participants penalized r¨¦sum¨¦s that included an LGBT activity, and the penalty was slightly stronger for male r¨¦sum¨¦s. Additionally, men evaluated non-LGBT women who used feminine adjectives more positively than when they used masculine adjectives. R¨¦sum¨¦s of women with the LGBT activity and men were both immune to this effect. This outcome suggests that perceived-heterosexual women are discouraged from masculine behavior that would be rewarded in the labor market, whereas perceived-LGBT women are not. Men who had the strongest reaction to perceived-heterosexual women using masculine adjectives also had the strongest negative reaction to r¨¦sum¨¦s with an LGBT activity. This pattern suggests that male decision makers are biased in ways that harm LGBT men, LGBT women, and heterosexual women in the labor market
%K gay/bisexual men and women
%K gender
%K gender discrimination
%K gender pay gap
%K gender wage differential
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0019793919832273