Using random selection from a preselected pool of applicants closes the gender gap in competitiveness and can increase the number of high-performing women who apply to senior-level positions.

A greater range of task options can motivate female employees to take on challenges and, as a result, benefit from potential higher earnings. 

Exposure to gender role models increases women’s interest in political current events but does not increase their ambition to become involved in politics.

Being socialized at a young age in a society with female political empowerment, specifically women’s suffrage, increases a girl’s likelihood to participate in the labor force, divorce, and attain education as an adult.

Female students in all-female classes experience less stereotype threat and perform better in their mathematics grades than their female peers in coeducational classes, with no difference in their language grades.

Subtle exposure to highly successful female leaders improves women’s performance and self-evaluations in stressful leadership tasks.