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The role of piped water supplies in advancing health, economic development, and gender equality in rural communities

Piped water interventions resulted in a significant reduction of time spent fetching water for girls and women, as well as increased household water consumption.

James C. Winter, Gary L. Darmstadt, Jennifer Davis (2021)

Improving Girls' Sense of Fit in Science: Increasing the Impact of Role Models

Beyond merely exposing girls to role models, actively encouraging girls to choose a role model may improve their sense of fit in science.

Laurie T. O'Brien, Aline Hitti, Emily Shaffer, Amanda R. Van Camp, Donata Henry, Patricia N. Gilbert (2017)

Women and Power: Unpopular, Unwilling, or Held Back?

Quotas that force political parties to increase the number of female candidates have a neutral or beneficial effect on the parties' electability.

Pablo Casas-Arce, Albert Saiz (2015)

Cash transfers, migration, and gender norms

Cash transfers affect women and men's livelihoods differently when it comes to the reasons for why they choose to migrate.

Melissa Hidrobo, Valerie Mueller, Shalini Roy (2021)

When accomplishments come back to haunt you: the negative effect of competence signals on women's performance evaluations

Women with higher achievements tend to have lower performance evaluations when assessed by male evaluators who are more likely to align their beliefs with group-based hierarchies in society.

M. Ena Inesi, Daniel M. Cable (2014)

Do Women who Succeed in Male-Dominated Domains Help Other Women? The Moderating Role of Gender Identification

Women, for whom being a woman is not central to who they are, are more likely to hinder the advancement of other women in male-dominated fields.

Cheryl R. Kaiser, Kerry E. Spalding (2015)

The Effect of Gender-Targeted Transfers: Experimental Evidence From India

Evidence from India suggests gender-targeted cash transfer programs can empower women in household decision-making processes but have little effect on household expenditures, savings, income, or nutrition.

Ingvild Almås, Vincent Somville, Lore Vandewalle (2020)

Building Safer Public Spaces: Exploring Gender Difference in the Perception of Safety in Public Space through Urban Design Interventions

In London, perceptions of safety in public spaces increased with the removal of solid walls, especially among women.

Pablo Navarrete-Hernandez, Arielle Vetro, Paz Concha (2021)

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)

Defending the Sex/Gender Binary: The Role of Gender Identification and Need for Closure

In the United Kingdom and Sweden, psychological factors including gender identification and need for closure are associated with binary gender/sex views, prejudice toward non-binary people, and opposition to gender-neutral pronouns.

Thekla Morgenroth, Marie Gustafsson Sendén, Anna Lindqvist, Emma Aurora Renström, Michelle Kim Ryan, Thomas Morton (2021)