We are very happy to share that our article on evaluators' fit perceptions and the role of stereotypes in male stereotyped and across work contexts is part of the current issue of Personnel Psychology.

We conducted a series of experiments and found that perceived agency (i.e., stereotypical male qualities) drives perceived person-job and person-organization fit in (strictly) male stereotyped work context. Across contexts, the relevance of perceived agency for perceived fit increased with perceived job status, and the relevance of perceived communality (i.e., stereotypical female qualities) decreased with the expected share of men. We also found that stereotyped recruitment material plays a role in biasing evaluators' fit perceptions, and a higher need to be perceived as agentic for women than for men, due to the perceived lack of fit between women and high-status jobs.

Dutz, R., Hubner, S., & Peus C. (2022). When agency “fits” regardless of gender: Perceptions of applicant fit when job and organization signal male stereotypes. Personnel Psychology, 75(2), 441-483.

The full article is available open access at https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12470