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Does Exposure to Gender Role Models Increase Women’s Political Ambition? A Field Experiment with Politicians

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


 

Florian Foos, Fabrizio Gilardi (2020)
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Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation

In male-dominated fields, quantitative performance ratings for judging a professor’s merit elicit more gender bias when ratings are assessed on a 10-point scale than when assessed on a 6-point scale.

Lauren A. Rivera, András Tilcsik (2019)
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The Mixed Effects of Online Diversity Training

One-off online diversity and anti-bias trainings may be effective in changing employee attitudes, but do not change behaviors in the workplace. 

Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dena M. Gromet, Robert W. Rebele, Cade Massey, Angela L. Duckworth, Adam M. Grant (2019)
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Does Gender Matter for Small Business Performance? Experimental Evidence from India

The gender profit gap in micro-enterprises is likely to be driven by gender differences in access to capital and business inputs rather than seller behavior or demand-side constraints.

Solène Delecourt, Odyssia Ng (2019)
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Gender quotas increase the equality and effectiveness of climate policy interventions

Representation of women in decision making groups increases the likelihood that climate policy interventions will be effective and that the benefits of the interventions will be shared equally.

Nathan J. Cook, Tara Grillos, Krister P. Andersson (2019)
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We Ask Men to Win and Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding

Start-up funders tend to ask men about how they will promote success and women about how they will prevent failure, contributing to the gender gap in funding allocation.  Replying to prevention-focused questions with promotion-focused answers can help founders counter biased motivational questions.

Dana Kanze, Laura Huang, Mark A. Conley, E. Tory Higgins (2018)
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Penalized or Protected? Gender and the Consequences of Nonstandard and Mismatched Employment Histories

Being in a job that underutilizes a person's skills is as damaging to a person's work history as a year of unemployment, and men are penalized for having part-time employment histories while women are not.

David Pedulla (2016)
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Problems in the pipeline: Stereotype threat and women's achievement in high-level math courses

Social forces, such as stereotype threat, can cause women to underperform men in math examinations. This achievement gap can be closed or even reversed when strategies are implemented during testing that eliminate this threat, such as including statements at the beginning of an exam that indicate both genders tend to perform equally well on it.

Catherine Good, Joshua Aronson, Jayne Ann Harder (2008)
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Algorithmic Bias? An Empirical Study into Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads

Despite explicit intentions to be gender neutral, a Facebook ad for STEM careers was shown more often to men than women, potentially due to economic forces and competition among advertisers. 

Anja Lambrecht, Catherine Tucker (2018)
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A social-cognitive approach to understanding gender differences in negotiator ethics: The role of moral identity

Women are more likely than men to have strongly internalized moral identities, leading to more ethical negotiation practices—but the situation can suppress women’s ethical strength.

Jessica A. Kennedy, Laura Kray, Gillian Ku (2017)
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Does Exposure to Gender Role Models Increase Women’s Political Ambition? A Field Experiment with Politicians

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


 

Florian Foos, Fabrizio Gilardi (2020)
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The Mixed Effects of Online Diversity Training

One-off online diversity and anti-bias trainings may be effective in changing employee attitudes, but do not change behaviors in the workplace. 

Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dena M. Gromet, Robert W. Rebele, Cade Massey, Angela L. Duckworth, Adam M. Grant (2019)
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Gender quotas increase the equality and effectiveness of climate policy interventions

Representation of women in decision making groups increases the likelihood that climate policy interventions will be effective and that the benefits of the interventions will be shared equally.

Nathan J. Cook, Tara Grillos, Krister P. Andersson (2019)
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Penalized or Protected? Gender and the Consequences of Nonstandard and Mismatched Employment Histories

Being in a job that underutilizes a person's skills is as damaging to a person's work history as a year of unemployment, and men are penalized for having part-time employment histories while women are not.

David Pedulla (2016)
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Algorithmic Bias? An Empirical Study into Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads

Despite explicit intentions to be gender neutral, a Facebook ad for STEM careers was shown more often to men than women, potentially due to economic forces and competition among advertisers. 

Anja Lambrecht, Catherine Tucker (2018)
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Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation

In male-dominated fields, quantitative performance ratings for judging a professor’s merit elicit more gender bias when ratings are assessed on a 10-point scale than when assessed on a 6-point scale.

Lauren A. Rivera, András Tilcsik (2019)
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Does Gender Matter for Small Business Performance? Experimental Evidence from India

The gender profit gap in micro-enterprises is likely to be driven by gender differences in access to capital and business inputs rather than seller behavior or demand-side constraints.

Solène Delecourt, Odyssia Ng (2019)
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We Ask Men to Win and Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding

Start-up funders tend to ask men about how they will promote success and women about how they will prevent failure, contributing to the gender gap in funding allocation.  Replying to prevention-focused questions with promotion-focused answers can help founders counter biased motivational questions.

Dana Kanze, Laura Huang, Mark A. Conley, E. Tory Higgins (2018)
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Problems in the pipeline: Stereotype threat and women's achievement in high-level math courses

Social forces, such as stereotype threat, can cause women to underperform men in math examinations. This achievement gap can be closed or even reversed when strategies are implemented during testing that eliminate this threat, such as including statements at the beginning of an exam that indicate both genders tend to perform equally well on it.

Catherine Good, Joshua Aronson, Jayne Ann Harder (2008)
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A social-cognitive approach to understanding gender differences in negotiator ethics: The role of moral identity

Women are more likely than men to have strongly internalized moral identities, leading to more ethical negotiation practices—but the situation can suppress women’s ethical strength.

Jessica A. Kennedy, Laura Kray, Gillian Ku (2017)
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