Abstract: Extensive attention has been paid to workplace gender bias. By summarizing the antecedents, outcomes and boundary conditions of workplace gender bias, the paper finds that workplace gender bias is rooted in two kinds of misfit. In the aspects of subjective cognition, the misfit between stereotypes about gender groups and job requirements leads to gender-role congruity bias (including descriptive bias and prescriptive bias); in the aspects of objective characteristics, the misfit between female′s sex and the sex distribution within jobs leads to outsider′s bias. Besides, workplace gender bias results in much organizational injustice against women, such as unfair job performance appraisal, salary gap of gender and dilemma of leadership, and multilevel factors including individual characteristics and organizational situations affect workplace gender bias.

Key words: gender-role congruity bias, outsider′s bias, organizational consequences, boundary conditions