Long story short: girls do best when being hired out of UG if they are B students, boys do fine across the spectrum. Aka the “Hermione Granger Effect”! I have seen it over & over in both graduate hiring and in early professional careers, but disappointing to see that it’s still out there.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122418762291#.YX2UQZ02tfI.twitter
Interesting and disappointing but I’m not seeing that play out in my D’s engineering cohort. The women have consistently gotten more interviews and job offers.
College majors were business, math, and English in the fictitious resume study.
Study was published March 2018 wonder if things have changed since then. My very social, outgoing and high achieving daughter and her friends who I would describe in the same way all accepted internships back in April for summer 2022. Most are in the areas of finance, consulting, engineering.
The paper does not mention whether there was a cliff in rate of response just below and just above 3.0 GPA, which is a common cut-off GPA used by employers in NACE surveys.
The GPA ranges shown for reporting are 2.50-2.83 (“C+/B-”), 2.84-3.20 (“B-/B”), 3.21-3.59 (“B/B+”), 3.60-3.95 (“A-/A”). The descriptors do seem to be a little off – 2.84-3.20 is centered more around B, while 3.21-3.59 is centered more around B+.
The callback rates by major, GPA range, and gender for the fictitious resume study are shown in figure 3 of the paper:
