Male economists either care only about quality, or are biased against women and female candidates are generally better than male, even if observable characteristics are the same, it seems from “Leading scientists favour women in tenure-track hiring testUS science and engineering professors preferred female job candidates by two to one:
“A 13 April study finds that faculty members prefer female candidates for tenure-track jobs in science and engineering — by a ratio of two to one. That result, based on experiments involving hypothetical job seekers, held true regardless of the hirer’s gender, department, career status or university type, researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
Also compared: a married man with a stay-at-home wife and two kids relative to a divorced woman with two kids or a single woman: