Department of International Finance, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poznań, Poland.
Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.
PLoS One. 2021 Dec 1;16(12):e0260503. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260503. eCollection 2021.
Earlier findings suggest that men with daughters make judgments and decisions somewhat in line with those made by women. In this paper, we attempt to extend those findings, by testing how gender and parenting daughters affect judgments of the appropriateness of investing in and working for morally controversial companies ("sin stocks"). To do so, in Study 1 (N = 634) we investigate whether women judge the prospect of investing in sin stocks more harshly than men do, and test the hypothesis that men with daughters judge such investments less favorably than other men. In Study 2 (N = 782), we investigate the willingness to work in morally controversial companies at a significant wage premium. Results show that-for men-parenting daughters yields harsher evaluations of sin stocks, but no evidence that it lowers the propensity to work in such companies. This contrasts to the effect of gender: women reliably judge both investment and employment in morally controversial companies more harshly than men do. We suggest that an aversion towards morally controversial companies might be a partial determinant of the gender gap in wages.
早期的研究结果表明，有女儿的男性在做出判断和决策时，某种程度上与女性的判断和决策一致。在本文中，我们试图通过测试性别和育有女儿如何影响对投资和为道德上有争议的公司（“罪恶股票”）工作的适当性的判断，来扩展这些发现。为此，在研究 1（N=634）中，我们调查了女性对投资罪恶股票的前景是否比男性更严厉，并检验了这样一个假设，即有女儿的男性对这类投资的看法不如其他男性有利。在研究 2（N=782）中，我们调查了在有显著工资溢价的情况下，人们是否愿意在道德上有争议的公司工作。结果表明，对于男性来说，养育女儿会导致对罪恶股票的评价更为严厉，但没有证据表明这会降低人们在这类公司工作的意愿。这与性别的影响形成了对比：女性确实比男性更严厉地评判投资和在道德上有争议的公司工作。我们认为，对道德上有争议的公司的厌恶可能是工资性别差距的部分决定因素。
