Strehl, E. A., & Fowler, R. (2019, June), Experimental Evidence Regarding Gendered Task Allocation on Teams  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32797

\bibitem{asee_peer_32797}
  Strehl, E. A., \& Fowler, R. (2019, June), \emph{Experimental Evidence Regarding Gendered Task Allocation on Teams}
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--32797

Elizabeth Ann Strehl and Robin Fowler.  "Experimental Evidence Regarding Gendered Task Allocation on Teams".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/32797 Internet.  13 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_32797}
  Elizabeth Ann Strehl and Robin Fowler.
  "Experimental Evidence Regarding Gendered Task Allocation on Teams".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/32797 Internet.  13 Dec, 2024

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author = "Elizabeth Ann Strehl and Robin Fowler"
title = "Experimental Evidence Regarding Gendered Task Allocation on Teams"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Student teams negotiate many aspects of collaboration, including task division on teams. Some studies have found that there are gender differences in task allocation on engineering student teams, with men performing more technical work, and women performing more communication and project organization based tasks. It is unknown, however, if this is due to students volunteering for tasks in which they perceive they are competent (and gender differences in real expertise or in self-perception), or whether there is a more insidious tendency for students to assume male students should do the technical tasks and female students should do organizational and communication work, and to encourage teammates to work in these gender-consistent manners. In this student-directed project, participants (n=119) of varying technical backgrounds were surveyed. Participants read about a hypothetical team, with teammates given names (gender-stereotypical white and non-white names: Deondre, Destiny, Jake, and Katie). Critically, the profiles of these team members were kept constant while names were swapped, and participants were asked to assign tasks to team members. This study investigates whether there are gender or race differences regarding task allocation, when experiences/expertise are held constant and self-perceptions are irrelevant. We find no significant difference in technical tasks assigned by name. However, we find a significant difference in who is assigned managerial work (with “Katie” assigned the most, for each set of characteristics) and a marginally significant difference in who is assigned the writing work (with “Katie” again doing more of this than the other names). These results suggest that participants used assumptions about teammate demographic information as they made decisions regarding task division, at least regarding who would do managerial and writing work. 

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