Implicit Gender Bias in State-Sponsored Judicial Performance Evaluations: A Preliminary Analysis of Colorado's JPE System, 2002-2012

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Gill ◽  
Kenneth J. Retzl
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Judicial Performance

Contradicting findings of gender bias in teaching evaluations: Evidence from two experiments in Denmark

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz ◽  
Mette Bisgaard ◽  
Berit Lassesen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Gender Effects ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Student Evaluations Of Teaching ◽  
Teaching Evaluations ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Evaluation Of Teaching

The role of gender in the interaction between citizens and public sector employees attracts increasing attention. Notably, gender effects have been described in performance evaluations across different contexts. With respect to student evaluations of teaching, a series of observational studies as well as experimental studies have found that women are evaluated lower than men. In this paper, we conduct two experiments in Denmark to test whether a similar gender bias is present in a national context that is generally considered among the most gender equal. Study 1 investigates differences in the evaluation of two similar presentations by teachers reported to be either male or female. Study 2 focuses on the evaluation of teaching material prepared by men and women respectively. The two studies arrive at similar conclusions: There is no gender bias in favor of men in the evaluations made by students. The paper discusses the implications of these findings.

Assessing Implicit Gender Bias in Medical Student Performance Evaluations

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick D. Axelson ◽  
Catherine M. Solow ◽  
Kristi J. Ferguson ◽  
Michael B. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Performance Evaluations

The Language of Performance Evaluations

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Biernat ◽  
M. J. Tocci ◽  
Joan C. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Technical Competence ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Sex Effects ◽  
Positive Performance ◽  
Interpersonal Warmth ◽  
Gendered Expectations

Performance evaluations of male and female junior attorneys in a Wall Street law firm were analyzed. Male supervisors judged male attorneys more favorably than female attorneys on numerical ratings that mattered for promotion but offered narrative comments that showed either no sex effects or greater favorability toward women. Judgments of male attorneys were more consistent overall than they were for female attorneys, and predictors of numerical ratings differed by sex: Narrative ratings of technical competence mattered more for men than women, and narrative ratings of interpersonal warmth mattered more for women than men. Open-ended use of positive performance words—the only outcome that favored women—did not translate into positive numerical ratings for women. The data suggest subtle patterns of gender bias, in which women were harmed by not meeting gendered expectations of interpersonal warmth but were less benefited than men by meeting masculine standards of high technical competence.

Managing the Selection Debate

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-158
Author(s):  
Charles Gardner Geyh
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Campaign Finance ◽  
Judicial Independence ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Electoral Accountability ◽  
Judicial Selection ◽  
Judicial Performance

Chapter 6 argues that we can come closer to consensus in the judicial selection debate by confronting and overcoming the errors and exaggerations that chapter 5 isolates. That said, complete consensus is likely to remain elusive because ultimately, judicial independence from electoral accountability is both in tension with and essential to democracy. As the chapter discusses, appointive systems are a preferable default, but there are circumstances in which electoral accountability can be essential to the judiciary’s perceived legitimacy with the general public. The chapter also suggests ways in which elected judiciaries can be made more impartial and independent, including reforming campaign finance, amending disqualification rules, and lengthening judicial terms, as well as greater accountability, as well as the ways that appointed judiciaries can be made more accountable via publicizing existing accountability-promoting mechanisms, reinvigorating disqualification procedure, and instituting rigorous judicial performance evaluations.

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