Intersectional Research Summaries on the Gender Action Portal

Gender and Age

Age, Women, and Hiring: An Experimental Study

Gender and Caste

The Gender of Caste: Identity, Political Reservations and Access to Water Resources in Rural India

Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India

Gender and Culture

Culture, Institutions, and the Gender Gap in Competitive Inclination: Evidence from the Communist Experiment in China

Electoral Gender Quotas And Attitudes Toward Traditional Leaders: A Policy Experiment In Lesotho

Emirati Women do not Shy Away from Competition: Evidence from a Patriarchal Society in Transition

Gender Differences In Competition: Evidence From A Matrilineal And A Patriarchal Society

Political Reservation and Substantive Representation: Evidence from Indian Village Councils

What Explains Low Female Political Representation? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Japan

Why the Gender of Traditional Authorities Matters: Intersectionality and Women's Rights Advocacy in Malawi

Gender and Disability

Consequences of Confronting Patronizing Help for People with Disabilities: Do Target Gender and Disability Type Matter?

The impact of an inclusive education intervention on learning outcomes for girls with disabilities within a resource-poor setting

Gender and Indigenous Communities

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Marriage and Divorce

How Does Media Influence Social Norms: Experimental Evidence on the Issue of Common Knowledge

The Interaction Effect of Gender and Ethnicity in Loan Approval: A Bayesian Estimation with Data from a Laboratory Field Experiment

Are Women “Naturally” Better Credit Risks in Microcredit? Evidence from Field Experiments in Patriarchal and Matrilineal Societies in Bangladesh

Gender and Migration

Empowered by Absence: Does Male Out-migration Empower Female Household Heads Left Behind?

Cash transfers, migration, and gender norms

Intended versus unintended consequences of migration restriction policies: evidence from a natural experiment in Indonesia

The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp

Gender and Race

Asian Communities

Gender, race, and political ambition: how intersectionality and frames influence interest in political office

The Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action on Minority and Female Employment: A Natural Experiment Approach Using State-Level Affirmative Action Laws and EEO-4 Data

The Racialized and Gendered Workplace: Applying an Intersectional Lens to a Field Experiment on Hiring Discrimination in Five European Labor Markets

Who Can Lean In? The Intersecting Role of Race and Gender in Negotiations

Perceptions of women of color who claim compound discrimination: Interpersonal judgments and perceived credibility

Black Communities

An ally you say? Endorsing White women as allies to encourage perceptions of allyship and organizational identity-safety among Black women

Failure is not an option for Black women: Effects of organizational performance on leaders with single versus dual-subordinate identities

Melanin and Curls: Evaluation of Black Women Candidates

Which Identity Frames Boost Support for and Mobilization in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement? An Experimental Test

Do School Counselors Exhibit Bias in Recommending Students for Advanced Coursework?

Ethnic Variation in Gender-STEM Stereotypes and STEM Participation: An Intersectional Approach

Gender, race, and political ambition: how intersectionality and frames influence interest in political office

Going it alone: Competition increases the attractiveness of minority status

How Gender and Race Stereotypes Impact the Advancement of Scholars in STEM: Professors’ Biased Evaluations of Physics and Biology Post-Doctoral Candidates

In Good Company: When Gender Diversity Boosts a Company’s Reputation

One size may not fit all: Exploring how the intersection of race and gender and stigma consciousness predict effective identity-safe cues for Black women

The Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action on Minority and Female Employment: A Natural Experiment Approach Using State-Level Affirmative Action Laws and EEO-4 Data

The Racialized and Gendered Workplace: Applying an Intersectional Lens to a Field Experiment on Hiring Discrimination in Five European Labor Markets

Were California’s Decarceration efforts smart?

When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity

Pregnancy and STD Prevention Counseling Using an Adaptation of Motivational Interviewing: A Randomized Control Trial

(Sex) Crime and Punishment in the #MeToo Era: How the Public Views Rape

Perceptions of women of color who claim compound discrimination: Interpersonal judgments and perceived credibility

Hispanic/Latinx Communities

Intersectional patterns of prejudice confrontation by White, heterosexual, and cisgender allies

Do School Counselors Exhibit Bias in Recommending Students for Advanced Coursework?

Gender, race, and political ambition: how intersectionality and frames influence interest in political office

How Gender and Race Stereotypes Impact the Advancement of Scholars in STEM: Professors’ Biased Evaluations of Physics and Biology Post-Doctoral Candidates

The Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action on Minority and Female Employment: A Natural Experiment Approach Using State-Level Affirmative Action Laws and EEO-4 Data

Were California’s Decarceration efforts smart?

When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity

Are You My Mentor? A Field Experiment on Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Self-Starters

Middle Eastern and Arabic communities

Intersectional patterns of prejudice confrontation by White, heterosexual, and cisgender allies

The Racialized and Gendered Workplace: Applying an Intersectional Lens to a Field Experiment on Hiring Discrimination in Five European Labor Markets

Communities of Color in the U.S.

Does diversity-valuing behavior result in diminished performance ratings for nonwhite and female leaders

Looking up and looking out: Career mobility effects of demographic similarity among professionals

More Than Public Service: A Field Experiment on Job Advertisements and Diversity in the Police

The Mixed Effects of Online Diversity Training

Gender and Performance: Evidence from School Assignment by Randomized Lottery

Gender and Religion

Multiple Discrimination against Female Immigrants Wearing Headscarves

Using the Qur’ān to Empower Arab Women? Theory and Experimental Evidence From Egypt

Gender and Sexual Orientation

Intersectional patterns of prejudice confrontation by White, heterosexual, and cisgender allies

Discrimination against Queer Women in the U.S. Workforce : A Résumé Audit Study

Gender and Socioeconomic Status

Challenge-seeking and the gender wage gap: A lab-in-the-field experiment with cleaning personnel

Crimes Against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work

Class Advantage, Commitment Penalty: The Gendered Effect of Social Class Signals in an Elite Labor Market

The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India

Do Financial Education Interventions for Women from Poor Households Impact Their Financial Behaviors? Experimental Evidence from India

Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Exploring gendered behavior in the field with experiments: Why public goods are provided by women in a Nairobi slum

Impact of Oportunidades on Skilled Attendance at Delivery in Rural Areas

Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

The Short-Term Impacts of a Schooling Conditional Cash Transfer Program on the Sexual Behavior of Young Women

Work-Family Programs and Nonwork Networks: Within-Group Inequality, Network Activation, and Labor Market Attachment

How an Earnings Supplement Can Affect Union Formation among Low-Income Single Mothers

Trans and Nonbinary Identities

Defending the Sex/Gender Binary: The Role of Gender Identification and Need for Closure

The Effects of Gender Neuroessentialism on Transprejudice: An Experimental Study

Transgender prejudice reduction and opinions on transgender rights: Results from a mediation analysis on experimental data

Using experiments to understand public attitudes towards transgender rights

What’s in a pronoun: Exploring gender pronouns as an organizational identity-safety cue among sexual and gender minorities