Students in an online course were randomly assigned to one of four discussion groups taught by one of two assistant instructors€"one female and one male (MacNell et al., 2014). Each instructor led two groups, one under their own name and one under the identity of the other (opposite gender/sex) instructor. At the end of the course, students evaluated their instructor on 12 dimensions (e.g., responsible, knowledgeable, enthusiastic). Although actual female instructors earned slightly (though not statistically reliably) higher ratings than actual male