The Journal of Social Psychology, August 1st, 1993
KNOWING A PERSON'S GENDER can bias one's attributions regarding the causes of that person's success or failure. In the past, successful performances by American men were more likely to be attributed to ability, whereas women's successes were more likely to be attributed to luck (Etaugh & Brown, 1975; Feather & Simon, 1975). Reciprocally, women's failure was more likely to be attributed to a lack of skill than was a similar failure by men. Furthermore, in tasks of varied gender-relevance, a man's success in either a male- or a female-oriented activity was attributed to skill, but a woman's su...
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