Volume 21, Number 3 (Summer) 1986

Lewis, Gregory B. 1986. "Gender and Promotions: Promotion Chances of White Men and Women in Federal White-Collar Employment." Journal of Human Resources 21(3):406-419.

Using logit analysis on 1 percent samples of federal personnel records for 1973-82, this paper finds strikingly similar promotion probabilities for white men and women, once a variety of individual characteristics are accounted for.