Women and ethics in business

 APRIL 22, 2013 Monday . 

Why Women Shun Business: It May Be About the Ethical Compromises ! 

In an experiment involving hypothetical job descriptions, women showed lower interest in companies described as choosing profits over ethics than in firms that favored ethics (3.56 versus 4.97 on a 1-to-7 scale, on average), an effect that didn't show up in men, say Jessica A. Kennedy and Laura J. Kray of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Women also showed stronger implicit associations between business and immorality than did men. Women's aversion to ethical compromises may steer them away from business careers, the researchers say.

Source: Who Is Willing to Sacrifice Ethical Values for Money and Social Status? : Gender Differences in Reactions to Ethical Compromises