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Does tipping facilitate sexual objectification? The effect of tips on sexual harassment of bar and restaurant servers

Sex-based harassment towards a fictionalized female bartender was seen as more acceptable by participants when the worker received tips.  

Olivier Klein, Camila Arnal, Sarah Eagan, Philippe Bernard, Sarah J. Gervais (2021)
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Do quotas help women to climb the career ladder? A laboratory experiment

Gender quotas increased women’s participation in competitive environments, particularly at higher levels.

Valeria Maggian, Natalia Montinari, Antonio Nicolò (2020)
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Increasing the perceived malleability of gender bias using a modified Video Intervention for Diversity in STEM (VIDS)

Programs highlighting the pervasiveness of gender bias may contribute to the mindset that gender bias cannot be changed. However, discussing concrete tools for addressing bias in such trainings can promote participants' belief in their ability to take action to address bias.

Erin P. Hennes, Evava S. Pietri, Corinne A Moss-Racusin, Katherine A. Mason, John F. Dovidio, Victoria L Brescoll, April H. Bailey, Jo Handelsman (2018)
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The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp

Employment opportunities for refugees significantly boosted their psychological well being. For women refugees, it also increased their perceptions of household power and intolerance for intimate partner violence.

Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane, Fatima Zahra (2022)
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Perceptions of women of color who claim compound discrimination: Interpersonal judgments and perceived credibility

Claims of compound discrimination (from women of color suffering from sexism and racism) are perceived as neither more troublemaking nor less credible than claims of sexism or racism alone

Jessica D. Remedios, Samantha H. Snyder, Charles A. Lizza (2016)
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Benefit-Finding Improves Well-Being among Women Who Have Experienced Gender Discrimination

Encouraging women to reflect on the lessons of past experiences of sexist discrimination can improve subjective well-being, while also motivating action for positive change. 

Ariel J. Mosley, Nyla R. Branscombe (2020)
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Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment

Light-touch, employer-led interventions did not break down opposition to women’s employment in Karnataka, India. 

Joshua T. Dean, Seema Jayachandran (2019)
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Leadership Selection: Can Changing the Default Break the Glass Ceiling?

Gender leadership gaps could be reduced by giving women the choice to opt out of rather than opt into a leadership role. 

Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, Erte Xiao (2022)
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On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms

By directly depositing wages into women’s own bank accounts paired with information sessions teaching them how to use bank accounts, India’s public workfare program increased female labor force participation in Madhya Pradesh.

Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore (2021)
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Focal random selection closes the gender gap in competitiveness

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.

Joël Berger, Margit Osterloh, Katja Rost (2020)
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Does tipping facilitate sexual objectification? The effect of tips on sexual harassment of bar and restaurant servers

Sex-based harassment towards a fictionalized female bartender was seen as more acceptable by participants when the worker received tips.  

Olivier Klein, Camila Arnal, Sarah Eagan, Philippe Bernard, Sarah J. Gervais (2021)
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Increasing the perceived malleability of gender bias using a modified Video Intervention for Diversity in STEM (VIDS)

Programs highlighting the pervasiveness of gender bias may contribute to the mindset that gender bias cannot be changed. However, discussing concrete tools for addressing bias in such trainings can promote participants' belief in their ability to take action to address bias.

Erin P. Hennes, Evava S. Pietri, Corinne A Moss-Racusin, Katherine A. Mason, John F. Dovidio, Victoria L Brescoll, April H. Bailey, Jo Handelsman (2018)
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Perceptions of women of color who claim compound discrimination: Interpersonal judgments and perceived credibility

Claims of compound discrimination (from women of color suffering from sexism and racism) are perceived as neither more troublemaking nor less credible than claims of sexism or racism alone

Jessica D. Remedios, Samantha H. Snyder, Charles A. Lizza (2016)
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Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment

Light-touch, employer-led interventions did not break down opposition to women’s employment in Karnataka, India. 

Joshua T. Dean, Seema Jayachandran (2019)
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On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms

By directly depositing wages into women’s own bank accounts paired with information sessions teaching them how to use bank accounts, India’s public workfare program increased female labor force participation in Madhya Pradesh.

Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore (2021)
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Do quotas help women to climb the career ladder? A laboratory experiment

Gender quotas increased women’s participation in competitive environments, particularly at higher levels.

Valeria Maggian, Natalia Montinari, Antonio Nicolò (2020)
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The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp

Employment opportunities for refugees significantly boosted their psychological well being. For women refugees, it also increased their perceptions of household power and intolerance for intimate partner violence.

Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane, Fatima Zahra (2022)
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Benefit-Finding Improves Well-Being among Women Who Have Experienced Gender Discrimination

Encouraging women to reflect on the lessons of past experiences of sexist discrimination can improve subjective well-being, while also motivating action for positive change. 

Ariel J. Mosley, Nyla R. Branscombe (2020)
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Leadership Selection: Can Changing the Default Break the Glass Ceiling?

Gender leadership gaps could be reduced by giving women the choice to opt out of rather than opt into a leadership role. 

Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, Erte Xiao (2022)
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Focal random selection closes the gender gap in competitiveness

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.

Joël Berger, Margit Osterloh, Katja Rost (2020)
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