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Gender differences in trust dynamics: Women trust more than men following a trust violation

After a violation in trust, women are more likely to regain trust in a transgressor due to higher interest in maintaining a relationship.

Michael P. Haselhuhn, Jessica A. Kennedy, Laura Kray, Alex B. Van Zant, Maurice E. Schweitzer (2014)

Countering Violence Against Women by Encouraging Disclosure: A Mass Media Experiment in Rural Uganda

In rural Uganda, a media campaign reduced rates of domestic violence by increasing women's willingness to report incidents.

Donald P. Green, Anna M. Wilke, Jasper Cooper (2020)

The Beauty Myth: Prescriptive Beauty Norms for Women Reflect Hierarchy-Enhancing Motivations Leading to Discriminatory Employment Practices

The “prescriptive beauty norm” reflects a desire to enhance gender hierarchy and contributes to social policing of women and employment discrimination practices known as the “beauty tax.”

Leeat Ramati-Ziber, Nurit Shnabel, Peter Glick (2019)

The Isolated Choice Effect and Its Implications for Gender Diversity in Organizations

People are more likely to choose candidates whose gender would increase group diversity (e.g., women in a male-dominated environment) when hiring multiple group members rather than when making a single, isolated hiring decision.

Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, Katherine L. Milkman (2020)

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

In Malawi, female traditional leaders are more effective in bolstering support for child marriage reforms than their state or male counterparts.

Ragnhild L. Muriaas, Vibeke Wang, Lindsay J. Benstead, Boniface Dulani, Lise Rakner (2019)

Unconscious Bias Interventions for Business: An Initial Test of WAGES-Business (Workshop Activity for Gender Equity Simulation) and Google’s “re:Work” Trainings

Experiential learning may be more effective in training employees to recognize and address unconscious bias than less interactive anti-bias initiatives.

Kaitlin McCormick-Huhn, Lizbeth M. Kim, Stephanie A. Shields (2020)

Language Influences Public Attitudes toward Gender Equality

People speaking genderless languages, (i.e. languages without references to objects as male or female), may exhibit more egalitarian views about women's roles in politics and society.

Efrén O. Pérez, Margit Tavits (2019)

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

Restrictive migration policy , which restricted people from emigrating (migrating away) from their country of origin, deteriorated the local labor market by pushing a higher percentage of women than men into informal and agricultural work but also led to an increase in junior secondary school enrollment.

Mattia Makovec, Ririn S. Purnamasari, Matteo Sandi, Astrid Savitiri (2018)

Were California’s Decarceration efforts smart? A quasi-experimental examination of racial, ethnic, and gender disparities

Decarceration efforts that do not explicitly address racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in incarceration rates risk exacerbating such gaps, even as they reduce overall incarceration.

Aaron Gottlieb, Pajarita Charles, Branden McLeod, Jean Kjellstrand, Janaé Bonsu (2020)

Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Intergenerational Investment

In Zambia, negotiation training for teen girls may increase their continued enrollment in school.

Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, Kathleen McGinn (2020)