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Gender Quotas, Competitions, and Peer Review: Experimental Evidence on the Backlash Against Women

In competitive environments where a gender quota is implemented and peer sabotage is possible, women experience strong backlash in the form of sabotage.

Andreas Leibbrandt, Liang Choon Wang, Cordelia Fooc (2017)

Business training plus for female entrepreneurship? Short and medium-term experimental evidence from Peru

Two experimental business development programs for female microentrepreneurs in Lima, Peru showed that both women in the group that received general training and those in the group that received general training in addition to technical assistance experienced increased sales revenues and significant growth two years after the end of the treatment programs.

Martin Valdivia (2015)

Be an Advocate for Others, Unless You Are a Man: Backlash Against Gender-Atypical Male Job Candidates

Men with atypical gender characteristics face backlash in the hiring process.

Janine Bosak, Clara Kulich, Laurie Rudman, Mary Kinahan (2018)

Similarity in transgender and cisgender children's gender development

Researchers find that transgender children show a clear pattern of gender development associated with their current gender and not their sex assigned at birth.

Selin Gülgöz, Jessica J. Glazier, Elizabeth A. Enright, Daniel J. Alonso, Lily J. Durwood, Anne A. Fast, Riley Lowe, Chonghui Ji, Jeffrey Heer, Carol Lynn Martin, Kristina R. Olson (2019)

How Gender-Role Salience Influences Attitude Strength and Persuasive Message Processing

When women are exposed to female gender role information, the strength of their attitudes is reduced and they are more susceptible to persuasion. However, when men and women are exposed to male gender role information, they process messages more thoughtfully.

Asia A. Eaton, Penny S. Visser, Vicki Burns (2017)

Men and Women Candidates Are Similarly Persistent After Losing Elections

In the U.S., female candidates are no more likely to quit politics after suffering an electoral loss than their male counterparts.

Rachel Bernhard, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner (2021)

Do Gender Quotas Really Reduce Bias? Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Southern Africa

There is weak evidence suggesting that young women in communities with a female quota changed their gender biases surrounding women's participation in politics.

Amanda Clayton (2018)

When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity

Women and racial and ethnic minorities are found to benefit from mentioning their demographic identity in help requests.

Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman (2022)

The Mark of a Woman's Record: Gender and Academic Performance in Hiring

Academic achievement (grade point average, or GPA) has relatively no impact on the likelihood of men being hired in entry-level jobs whereas women are most hirable if their resumes portray moderate academic achievement. Moderate academic achievement is associated with increased likeability among women candidates.

Natasha Quadlin (2018)

Facilitating women's access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda

In Uganda, couples workshops increased subsequent household participation of these couples in women's empowerment interventions.

Kate Ambler, Kelly Jones, Michael O'Sullivan (2021)