Negotiating Femininity: Gender-Relevant Primes Improve Women’s Economic Performance in Gender Role Incongruent Negotiations
Simple strategies that prime women to focus on past negotiation successes or prepare by imagining helping a friend negotiate can help women succeed in negotiations.
Dual-anonymization Yields Promising Results for Reducing Gender Bias: A Naturalistic Field Experiment of Applications for Hubble Space Telescope Time
Anonymizing information, such as gender, about grant applicants reduced gender bias, particularly in male reviewers, who tended to rate female applicants significantly worse than male applicants.
Going it alone: Competition increases the attractiveness of minority status
When faced with competitive workplaces, women and African Americans are less likely to join teams that include other women or African Americans than when faced with non-competitive workplaces.
Erika L. Kirgios,
Edward H. Chang,
Katherine L. Milkman
Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
In venture capital (VC) competitions, exposure to more VC judges increases male, but not female, participants’ chances of founding a VC-backed startup. This is in part due to male participants' increased likelihood of proactively reaching out to judges after the competition.
The gender gap in self-promotion persists even when incentives to self-promote are removed and information about other people's average level of self-promotion is provided.
(Sex) Crime and Punishment in the #MeToo Era: How the Public Views Rape
Certain legally irrelevant features of rape (such as details relating to the victim's clothing and past criminal history) decrease respondents’ likelihood of reporting an incident and its perceived severity.
Progress in women’s representation in top leadership weakens people’s disturbance with gender inequality in other domains
Perceiving greater women’s representation in organizations’ top leadership leads people to overgeneralize women's access to equal opportunities, which in turn predicts lower concern with ongoing gender inequality in other domains.
Do School Counselors Exhibit Bias in Recommending Students for Advanced Coursework?
Black female students are statistically least recommended and rated as least prepared for AP Calculus by high school counselors, which has implications for their likelihood of success in the long-term.
Dania V. Francis,
Angela de Oliveira,
Carey Dimmitt
Negotiating Femininity: Gender-Relevant Primes Improve Women’s Economic Performance in Gender Role Incongruent Negotiations
Simple strategies that prime women to focus on past negotiation successes or prepare by imagining helping a friend negotiate can help women succeed in negotiations.
Going it alone: Competition increases the attractiveness of minority status
When faced with competitive workplaces, women and African Americans are less likely to join teams that include other women or African Americans than when faced with non-competitive workplaces.
Erika L. Kirgios,
Edward H. Chang,
Katherine L. Milkman
The gender gap in self-promotion persists even when incentives to self-promote are removed and information about other people's average level of self-promotion is provided.
(Sex) Crime and Punishment in the #MeToo Era: How the Public Views Rape
Certain legally irrelevant features of rape (such as details relating to the victim's clothing and past criminal history) decrease respondents’ likelihood of reporting an incident and its perceived severity.
Do School Counselors Exhibit Bias in Recommending Students for Advanced Coursework?
Black female students are statistically least recommended and rated as least prepared for AP Calculus by high school counselors, which has implications for their likelihood of success in the long-term.
Dania V. Francis,
Angela de Oliveira,
Carey Dimmitt
Dual-anonymization Yields Promising Results for Reducing Gender Bias: A Naturalistic Field Experiment of Applications for Hubble Space Telescope Time
Anonymizing information, such as gender, about grant applicants reduced gender bias, particularly in male reviewers, who tended to rate female applicants significantly worse than male applicants.
Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
In venture capital (VC) competitions, exposure to more VC judges increases male, but not female, participants’ chances of founding a VC-backed startup. This is in part due to male participants' increased likelihood of proactively reaching out to judges after the competition.
Progress in women’s representation in top leadership weakens people’s disturbance with gender inequality in other domains
Perceiving greater women’s representation in organizations’ top leadership leads people to overgeneralize women's access to equal opportunities, which in turn predicts lower concern with ongoing gender inequality in other domains.
