Abstract
The "glass ceiling" and the "gender gap" in compensation are commonly characterized as statistical measures of unfairness to women and attributed to inappropriate employer behavior and sexist socialization patterns. Biological, psychological, and anthropological evidence suggests, however, that the underlying assumption of the functional identity of men and women is incorrect. Well-known stereotypes of men as more competitive, more driven toward acquisition of status and resources, and more inclined to take risks than women, and stereotypes of women as more nurturant, more risk averse, less greedy, and less single-minded than men are true as generalizations. These temperamental sex differences have an underlying biological basis that is a legacy of our evolutionary history, and they are in large part responsible for differential workplace outcomes.
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37 Ariz. L. Rev. 971 (1995)
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