Women Leaving the Playpen: The Emancipating Role of Female Suffrage
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.
A Network’s Gender Composition and Communication Pattern Predict Women’s Leadership Success
Women are more likely to be placed into high level leadership positions if they are centrally located in their social network and have a female-dominated inner circle.
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
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.
History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women
Reminders of historic injustices against women increase men’s denial of current gender discrimination, thereby decreasing their support for employment equity policies that aim to promote the hiring of women.
Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men
When employers are informed that the norm is to hire more candidates of one gender, they tended to not exhibit norm-abiding behavior, with men demonstrating backlash.
How Gender and Race Stereotypes Impact the Advancement of Scholars in STEM: Professors’ Biased Evaluations of Physics and Biology Post-Doctoral Candidates
Intersectional stereotypes about gender and race hinder the advancement of women, Latinx people, and African Americans in STEM.
Asia A. Eaton,
Jessica F. Saunders,
Ryan K. Jacobson,
Keon West
Women Leaving the Playpen: The Emancipating Role of Female Suffrage
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.
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.
Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men
When employers are informed that the norm is to hire more candidates of one gender, they tended to not exhibit norm-abiding behavior, with men demonstrating backlash.
A Network’s Gender Composition and Communication Pattern Predict Women’s Leadership Success
Women are more likely to be placed into high level leadership positions if they are centrally located in their social network and have a female-dominated inner circle.
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
History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women
Reminders of historic injustices against women increase men’s denial of current gender discrimination, thereby decreasing their support for employment equity policies that aim to promote the hiring of women.
How Gender and Race Stereotypes Impact the Advancement of Scholars in STEM: Professors’ Biased Evaluations of Physics and Biology Post-Doctoral Candidates
Intersectional stereotypes about gender and race hinder the advancement of women, Latinx people, and African Americans in STEM.
Asia A. Eaton,
Jessica F. Saunders,
Ryan K. Jacobson,
Keon West