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Gender Attitudes in adolescence: evaluating the Girl Rising gender-sensitization program in India

Gender sensitization programs revealed positive results in guiding adolescents towards equitable views and positively influence their understanding of gender norms.  

Amita N. Vyas, G. Malhotra, N.C. Nagaraj, M. Landry (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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Effects of health behavior change intervention through women’s self-help groups on maternal and newborn health practices and related inequalities in rural India: A quasi-experimental study

In India, women from most marginalized populations disproportionately benefit from women’s self-help groups receiving maternal and newborn health behavior change communication interventions.  

Avishek Hazra, Yamini Atmavilas, Katherine Hay, Niranjan Saggurti, Raj Kumar Verma, Jaleel Ahmad, Sampath Kumar, P.S. Mohanan, Dileep V. Mavalankar, Laili Irani (2019)
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Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation

Switching from a plurality to a proportional representation system increases equality in electoral participation along one central dimension: gender.

Øyvind Søraas Skorge (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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Reducing discrimination against job seekers with and without employment gaps

Redesigning résumés reduces discrimination against female jobseekers with child-related employment gaps and overall improves hireability of applicants with and without employment gaps. 

Ariella S. Kristal, Leonie Nicks, Jamie Lee Gloor, Oliver P. Hauser (2023)
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What explains low female political representation? Evidence from survey experiments in Japan

Supply-side factors, such as the heavy burden of family duties and societal expectations, are the primary factors that discourage women from running for public office, leading to low representation of women in politics in Japan. Demand-side factors, such as voters' opinions of female candidates, were not significant determinants of this issue. 

Rieko Kage, Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Seiki Tanaka (2019)
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What’s in a Pronoun: Exploring Gender Pronouns as an Organizational Identity-Safety cue among Sexual and Gender minorities

The inclusion of gender pronouns in organization materials can serve as an effective identity-safety cue to gender and sexual minorities. 

India R. Johnson, Evava S. Pietri, David M. Buck, Roua Daas (2021)
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And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

When senior partners have more daughters, their venture capital firms hire more women, improving deal and fund performance. 

Sophie Calder Wang, Paul A. Gompers (2021)
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Gender Attitudes in adolescence: evaluating the Girl Rising gender-sensitization program in India

Gender sensitization programs revealed positive results in guiding adolescents towards equitable views and positively influence their understanding of gender norms.  

Amita N. Vyas, G. Malhotra, N.C. Nagaraj, M. Landry (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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Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation

Switching from a plurality to a proportional representation system increases equality in electoral participation along one central dimension: gender.

Øyvind Søraas Skorge (2021)
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Reducing discrimination against job seekers with and without employment gaps

Redesigning résumés reduces discrimination against female jobseekers with child-related employment gaps and overall improves hireability of applicants with and without employment gaps. 

Ariella S. Kristal, Leonie Nicks, Jamie Lee Gloor, Oliver P. Hauser (2023)
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What’s in a Pronoun: Exploring Gender Pronouns as an Organizational Identity-Safety cue among Sexual and Gender minorities

The inclusion of gender pronouns in organization materials can serve as an effective identity-safety cue to gender and sexual minorities. 

India R. Johnson, Evava S. Pietri, David M. Buck, Roua Daas (2021)
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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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Effects of health behavior change intervention through women’s self-help groups on maternal and newborn health practices and related inequalities in rural India: A quasi-experimental study

In India, women from most marginalized populations disproportionately benefit from women’s self-help groups receiving maternal and newborn health behavior change communication interventions.  

Avishek Hazra, Yamini Atmavilas, Katherine Hay, Niranjan Saggurti, Raj Kumar Verma, Jaleel Ahmad, Sampath Kumar, P.S. Mohanan, Dileep V. Mavalankar, Laili Irani (2019)
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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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What explains low female political representation? Evidence from survey experiments in Japan

Supply-side factors, such as the heavy burden of family duties and societal expectations, are the primary factors that discourage women from running for public office, leading to low representation of women in politics in Japan. Demand-side factors, such as voters' opinions of female candidates, were not significant determinants of this issue. 

Rieko Kage, Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Seiki Tanaka (2019)
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And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

When senior partners have more daughters, their venture capital firms hire more women, improving deal and fund performance. 

Sophie Calder Wang, Paul A. Gompers (2021)
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