"Work experience reduces a gender-based gap in time on tasks with super" by Idris Ademuyiwa, David Drewery et al.
Using a cross-sectional survey of co-operative education students, this study explored relationships between students’ gender, work experience, time spent on tasks with supervisors, and self-reported learning. Inexperienced men spent 50% more time on tasks with supervisors than inexperienced women. Work experience (completing at least one co-operative education work term) significantly reduced this gender-based gap. Further, time on tasks with supervisors was positively associated with self-reported learning among women, especially inexperienced women, but not for men. The findings are inter...