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

Quotas have continuing positive effects on women’s political representation at least one cycle after they are withdrawn.  

Mothers face penalties in hiring, starting salaries, and perceived competence while fathers can benefit from being a parent.

Men evaluate women as contributing less leadership and having fewer skills when there are two women in a group compared to when there are one or three.   

Women who participate in women-only substance abuse treatment programs benefit from reduced PTSD and better treatment outcomes than women in mixed-sex treatment programs.

Cash and in-kind transfers targeted to women reduce the prevalence of moderate intimate partner violence within households.

In mixed-sex environments, women are more likely than men to perform tasks that do not lead to promotion.     

Women excel under majority rule when they are the majority; when the minority of a deliberative body, women are more advantaged under unanimous rule.

In a competitive test-taking environment (like the SAT) with penalties for wrong answers, women are less willing to guess, resulting in a loss of potential points and lower scores compared with male test-takers.

Sex workers who undergo a comprehensive training program focused on improved agency and psychological empowerment exhibit positive changes in self-esteem, outlook, future-orientation, and health and economic behaviors.