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Technology

Learn about the ways in which we can close tech gender gap, and how we can leverage tech to bring these interventions to scale across sectors.

Maternal Health

Discover programs and practices that provide high quality care for women and families during pregnancy and childbirth.

Political Representation

Which interventions aim to close the gender gap in politics and leverage women’s skills for the public good?

Academic Achievement

Which strategies and policies will level the playing field and provide opportunities for academic success to students of all genders?

Access to Education

Find tools and practices that have worked (failed) around the world to ensure girls’ access to education.

Bias

Discover what gender stereotypes exist and which practices help us move beyond bias barriers to experience our full potential.

Business Case

What is the relationship between gender equity and prosperity, and how can we leverage this critical asset toward a prosperous future?

Compensation

What can policymakers and organizations do to ensure women get fairly compensated for their work?

Competition

Identifying when and how women and men are most willing (and unwilling) to compete will inform structural designs to maximize gender-equal participation.

Decision Making

Employers, communities, and households benefit when women have greater opportunity and agency. How does gender affect decision-making?

Entrepreneurship & Microfinance

What programs, policies, and designs can help foster women’s entrepreneurial opportunities?

Leadership

Learn strategies on how to best capitalize on women’s talent and leadership in politics, society, and the global economy.

Negotiation

Organizations and businesses can make structural changes so that negotiations are more gender-equal. Learn techniques and policies that can help create a more level playing field.

Political Participation

What are the different policies and revised cultural expectations that can help us establish women’s full participation in their governments?

Gender-Based Violence

How can we reduce the prevalence of gender-based violence against women and girls across the world?

Poverty Alleviation

Learn about the innovative strategies that organizations and governments are utilizing to reduce poverty and its disproportionate harm to women.

Evidence suggests quotas on corporate boards and political offices could improve women’s participation in leadership roles. Explore research testing the effects of quotas in both business and politics.

Reproductive and Sexual Health

Explore the public policy interventions that prevent the spread of STIs, as well as recommendations on how successful interventions can be improved and implemented in larger populations.

STEM

How can we advance women in girls in STEM? Explore the evidence: from mentorship programs to organizational and institutional policy changes.

Talent Management

What interventions can we use to help women navigate innate barriers in workplace, and help institutions "debias" their organizational processes?

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Encouraging women to reflect on the lessons of past experiences of sexist discrimination can improve subjective well-being, while also motivating action for positive change.

Benefit-Finding Improves Well-Being among Women Who Have Experienced Gender Discrimination

Ariel J. Mosley, Nyla R. Branscombe (2020)

Light-touch, employer-led interventions did not break down opposition to women’s employment in Karnataka, India.

Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment

Joshua T. Dean, Seema Jayachandran (2019)

Gender sensitization programs revealed positive results in guiding adolescents towards equitable views and positively influence their understanding of gender norms.

Gender Attitudes in adolescence: evaluating the Girl Rising gender-sensitization program in India

Amita N. Vyas, G. Malhotra, N.C. Nagaraj, M. Landry (2019)

Encouraging women to reflect on the lessons of past experiences of sexist discrimination can improve subjective well-being, while also motivating action for positive change.

Benefit-Finding Improves Well-Being among Women Who Have Experienced Gender Discrimination

Ariel J. Mosley, Nyla R. Branscombe (2020)

Gender sensitization programs revealed positive results in guiding adolescents towards equitable views and positively influence their understanding of gender norms.

Gender Attitudes in adolescence: evaluating the Girl Rising gender-sensitization program in India

Amita N. Vyas, G. Malhotra, N.C. Nagaraj, M. Landry (2019)

Light-touch, employer-led interventions did not break down opposition to women’s employment in Karnataka, India.

Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment

Joshua T. Dean, Seema Jayachandran (2019)

Encouraging women to reflect on the lessons of past experiences of sexist discrimination can improve subjective well-being, while also motivating action for positive change.

Benefit-Finding Improves Well-Being among Women Who Have Experienced Gender Discrimination

Ariel J. Mosley, Nyla R. Branscombe (2020)

Light-touch, employer-led interventions did not break down opposition to women’s employment in Karnataka, India.

Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment

Joshua T. Dean, Seema Jayachandran (2019)

Gender sensitization programs revealed positive results in guiding adolescents towards equitable views and positively influence their understanding of gender norms.

Gender Attitudes in adolescence: evaluating the Girl Rising gender-sensitization program in India

Amita N. Vyas, G. Malhotra, N.C. Nagaraj, M. Landry (2019)

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Restructuring the promotion process so that individuals are automatically considered for a promotion with the option to opt-out rather than having to self-nominate can narrow the gender gap in management.

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Encouraging women to reflect on the lessons of past experiences of sexist discrimination can improve subjective well-being, while also motivating action for positive change.

Benefit-Finding Improves Well-Being among Women Who Have Experienced Gender Discrimination

Light-touch, employer-led interventions did not break down opposition to women’s employment in Karnataka, India.

Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment

Gender sensitization programs revealed positive results in guiding adolescents towards equitable views and positively influence their understanding of gender norms.

Gender Attitudes in adolescence: evaluating the Girl Rising gender-sensitization program in India

Encouraging women to reflect on the lessons of past experiences of sexist discrimination can improve subjective well-being, while also motivating action for positive change.

Benefit-Finding Improves Well-Being among Women Who Have Experienced Gender Discrimination

Gender sensitization programs revealed positive results in guiding adolescents towards equitable views and positively influence their understanding of gender norms.

Gender Attitudes in adolescence: evaluating the Girl Rising gender-sensitization program in India

Light-touch, employer-led interventions did not break down opposition to women’s employment in Karnataka, India.

Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment

Encouraging women to reflect on the lessons of past experiences of sexist discrimination can improve subjective well-being, while also motivating action for positive change.

Benefit-Finding Improves Well-Being among Women Who Have Experienced Gender Discrimination

Light-touch, employer-led interventions did not break down opposition to women’s employment in Karnataka, India.

Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment

Gender sensitization programs revealed positive results in guiding adolescents towards equitable views and positively influence their understanding of gender norms.

Gender Attitudes in adolescence: evaluating the Girl Rising gender-sensitization program in India