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Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation

In male-dominated fields, quantitative performance ratings for judging a professor’s merit elicit more gender bias when ratings are assessed on a 10-point scale than when assessed on a 6-point scale.
Lauren A. Rivera, András Tilcsik (2019)
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Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship

In venture capital (VC) competitions, exposure to more VC judges increases male, but not female, participants’ chances of founding a VC-backed startup. This is in part due to male participants' increased likelihood of proactively reaching out to judges after the competition.
Sabrina T. Howell, Ramana Nanda (2019)
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The Effects of Gender Neuroessentialism on Transprejudice: An Experimental Study

Exposure to essentialist ideas that ground the male/female binary in biology may lead to more prejudice against transgender people, whereas exposure to ideas that question such essentialist claims may help counteract this prejudice.
Boby Ho-Hong Ching, Jason Teng Xu (2018)
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The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion

The gender gap in self-promotion persists even when incentives to self-promote are removed and information about other people's average level of self-promotion is provided.
Christine L. Exley, Judd B. Kessler (2020)
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Women and African Americans are less influential when they express anger during group decision-making

During negotiations, expressing anger decreases influence for women and African Americans but does not decrease the influence of white men.
Jessica M. Salerno, Liana C. Peter-Hagene, Alexander C. V. Jay (2019)
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(Sex) Crime and Punishment in the #MeToo Era: How the Public Views Rape

Certain legally irrelevant features of rape (such as details relating to the victim's clothing and past criminal history) decrease respondents’ likelihood of reporting an incident and its perceived severity.
Susanne Schwarz, Dara Kay Cohen, Matthew Baum (2020)
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Can Simple Advice Eliminate the Gender Gap in Willingness to Compete?

Simple advice can be a powerful and effective tool in reducing gender differences in willingness to compete.
Dany Kessel, Johanna Mollerstrom, Roel van Veldhuizen (2019)
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The Gendered Spillover Effect of Young Children's Health on Human Capital: Evidence from Turkey

In developing nations, reducing morbidity among preschool children may improve educational outcomes for their adolescent sisters by lessening childcare duties and allowing them to attend school.
Marcella M. Alsan (2017)
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Progress in women’s representation in top leadership weakens people’s disturbance with gender inequality in other domains

Perceiving greater women’s representation in organizations’ top leadership leads people to overgeneralize women's access to equal opportunities, which in turn predicts lower concern with ongoing gender inequality in other domains.
Oriane Georgeac, Aneeta Rattan (2019)
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The Mixed Effects of Online Diversity Training

One-off online diversity and anti-bias trainings may be effective in changing employee attitudes, but do not change behaviors in the workplace. 
Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dena M. Gromet, Robert W. Rebele, Cade Massey, Angela L. Duckworth, Adam M. Grant (2019)
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Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation

In male-dominated fields, quantitative performance ratings for judging a professor’s merit elicit more gender bias when ratings are assessed on a 10-point scale than when assessed on a 6-point scale.
Lauren A. Rivera, András Tilcsik (2019)
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The Effects of Gender Neuroessentialism on Transprejudice: An Experimental Study

Exposure to essentialist ideas that ground the male/female binary in biology may lead to more prejudice against transgender people, whereas exposure to ideas that question such essentialist claims may help counteract this prejudice.
Boby Ho-Hong Ching, Jason Teng Xu (2018)
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Women and African Americans are less influential when they express anger during group decision-making

During negotiations, expressing anger decreases influence for women and African Americans but does not decrease the influence of white men.
Jessica M. Salerno, Liana C. Peter-Hagene, Alexander C. V. Jay (2019)
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Can Simple Advice Eliminate the Gender Gap in Willingness to Compete?

Simple advice can be a powerful and effective tool in reducing gender differences in willingness to compete.
Dany Kessel, Johanna Mollerstrom, Roel van Veldhuizen (2019)
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Progress in women’s representation in top leadership weakens people’s disturbance with gender inequality in other domains

Perceiving greater women’s representation in organizations’ top leadership leads people to overgeneralize women's access to equal opportunities, which in turn predicts lower concern with ongoing gender inequality in other domains.
Oriane Georgeac, Aneeta Rattan (2019)
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Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship

In venture capital (VC) competitions, exposure to more VC judges increases male, but not female, participants’ chances of founding a VC-backed startup. This is in part due to male participants' increased likelihood of proactively reaching out to judges after the competition.
Sabrina T. Howell, Ramana Nanda (2019)
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The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion

The gender gap in self-promotion persists even when incentives to self-promote are removed and information about other people's average level of self-promotion is provided.
Christine L. Exley, Judd B. Kessler (2020)
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(Sex) Crime and Punishment in the #MeToo Era: How the Public Views Rape

Certain legally irrelevant features of rape (such as details relating to the victim's clothing and past criminal history) decrease respondents’ likelihood of reporting an incident and its perceived severity.
Susanne Schwarz, Dara Kay Cohen, Matthew Baum (2020)
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The Gendered Spillover Effect of Young Children's Health on Human Capital: Evidence from Turkey

In developing nations, reducing morbidity among preschool children may improve educational outcomes for their adolescent sisters by lessening childcare duties and allowing them to attend school.
Marcella M. Alsan (2017)
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The Mixed Effects of Online Diversity Training

One-off online diversity and anti-bias trainings may be effective in changing employee attitudes, but do not change behaviors in the workplace. 
Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dena M. Gromet, Robert W. Rebele, Cade Massey, Angela L. Duckworth, Adam M. Grant (2019)
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