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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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When senior partners have more daughters, their venture capital firms hire more women, improving deal and fund performance.

And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

Sophie Calder Wang, Paul A. Gompers (2021)

Appointing women into top management might mitigate the gendered expressions in language that describe women as less agentic than men.

Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes in organizational language

M. Asher Lawson, Ashley E. Martin, Imrul Huda, Sandra C. Matz (2022)

Though most workers are not willing to accept lower wages for some types of flexible work arrangements (e.g., scheduling flexibility to set their own days and times of work at a fixed number of hours, or the ability to choose the number of hours they work), women are generally more willing than men to give up more of their pay in exchange for flexible work options such as working from home and avoiding irregular work hours, especially if they have young children.

Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements

Amanda Pallais, Alexandre Mas (2017)

When senior partners have more daughters, their venture capital firms hire more women, improving deal and fund performance.

And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

Sophie Calder Wang, Paul A. Gompers (2021)

Though most workers are not willing to accept lower wages for some types of flexible work arrangements (e.g., scheduling flexibility to set their own days and times of work at a fixed number of hours, or the ability to choose the number of hours they work), women are generally more willing than men to give up more of their pay in exchange for flexible work options such as working from home and avoiding irregular work hours, especially if they have young children.

Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements

Amanda Pallais, Alexandre Mas (2017)

Appointing women into top management might mitigate the gendered expressions in language that describe women as less agentic than men.

Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes in organizational language

M. Asher Lawson, Ashley E. Martin, Imrul Huda, Sandra C. Matz (2022)

When senior partners have more daughters, their venture capital firms hire more women, improving deal and fund performance.

And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

Sophie Calder Wang, Paul A. Gompers (2021)

Appointing women into top management might mitigate the gendered expressions in language that describe women as less agentic than men.

Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes in organizational language

M. Asher Lawson, Ashley E. Martin, Imrul Huda, Sandra C. Matz (2022)

Though most workers are not willing to accept lower wages for some types of flexible work arrangements (e.g., scheduling flexibility to set their own days and times of work at a fixed number of hours, or the ability to choose the number of hours they work), women are generally more willing than men to give up more of their pay in exchange for flexible work options such as working from home and avoiding irregular work hours, especially if they have young children.

Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements

Amanda Pallais, Alexandre Mas (2017)

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What Works to Advance Gender Equity?

We’re on a mission to find out.

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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.

914,206 Visitors Worldwide

Recently Added Studies

When senior partners have more daughters, their venture capital firms hire more women, improving deal and fund performance.

And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

Appointing women into top management might mitigate the gendered expressions in language that describe women as less agentic than men.

Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes in organizational language

Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements

When senior partners have more daughters, their venture capital firms hire more women, improving deal and fund performance.

And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements

Appointing women into top management might mitigate the gendered expressions in language that describe women as less agentic than men.

Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes in organizational language

When senior partners have more daughters, their venture capital firms hire more women, improving deal and fund performance.

And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

Appointing women into top management might mitigate the gendered expressions in language that describe women as less agentic than men.

Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes in organizational language

Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements