Intersectional Research Summaries on the Gender Action Portal

As part of our intersectionality statement, the GAP team aims to expand the share of GAP’s content that takes an intersectional approach to gender policy and closing gender gaps. The summaries on GAP that take this lens are listed below, with links to individual summaries.

Explore the intersectional research on GAP!

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 a Cooperation Game: Evidence from the Field in Matrilineal, Patriarchal and Gender-neutral Societies

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

Multiple Discrimination against Female Immigrants Wearing Headscarves

Political Reservation and Substantive Representation: Evidence from Indian Village Councils

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

 

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 Ethnicity

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

Gender and Race

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Melanin and Curls: Evaluation of Black Women Candidates

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

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 Mixed Effects of Online Diversity Training

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?

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

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

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

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

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