Pozo García, Eva María DelDe La Puente Pacheco, Mario AlbertoFernández Cornejo, José AndrésBelope Nguema, SabinaRodríguez Juárez, EduardoEscot Mangas, LorenzoAttwood, Feona2024-02-122024-02-122020Del Pozo-García, E.; de la Puente, M.A.; Fernández-Cornejo, J.A. ; Belope-Nguema, S.; Rodríguez-Juárez, E.; & Escot,L. "Whether your name is Manuel or María matters: gender biases in recommendations to study engineering", Journal of Gender Studies,Vol 29 (Issue 7), Aug 2020, Pages 805-819, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2020.18053030958-923610.1080/09589236.2020.1805303https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/101226A controlled experiment was conducted to detect gender biases that participants, acting as advisers, may have when providing guidance to teenagers on their career choice. We presented a fictional profile to the study participants – university students from Spain – of a 15-year-old person, called Manuel or María, with two possible levels of academic record. The participants were asked to evaluate the student’s mathematical ability and provide guidance regarding whether or not he or she should study engineering in the future. We assumed that the effect of being a male target on the recommendation to study engineering is partially mediated by the fact that the participants attribute a greater mathematical ability to males. Our results suggest that a significant degree of gender bias in favour of males persists in the recommendation to study engineering. We propose some practical implications for advisers and for equality policies.engAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/journal article1465-3869https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2020.1805303restricted access519.242342.722316.6Career recomendationSTEM careersEngineeringGender biasDouble standardsPsicología Social (Sociología)Ciencias SocialesEconometría (Economía)FeminismoFamilia (Sociología)6302 Sociología Experimental6309.09 Posición Social de la Mujer