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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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Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes in organizational language

Appointing women into top management might mitigate the gendered expressions in language that describe women as less agentic than men.

M. Asher Lawson, Ashley E. Martin, Imrul Huda, Sandra C. Matz (2022)
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Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements

Though most workers are not willing to accept lower wages for some types of flexible work arrangements (e.g., scheduling flexibility to set their own days and times of work at a fixed number of hours, or the ability to choose the number of hours they work), women are generally more willing than men to give up more of their pay in exchange for flexible work options such as working from home and avoiding irregular work hours, especially if they have young children.  

Amanda Pallais, Alexandre Mas (2017)
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Subtle Linguistic Cues Increase Girls’ Engagement in Science

Subtle shifts in linguistic cues, such as describing science as an action instead of as an identity, may decrease the gender gap in science among young children.

Marjorie Rhodes, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Kathryn M. Yee, Katya Saunders (2019)
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Girl Empower – A gender transformative mentoring and cash transfer intervention to promote adolescent wellbeing: Impact findings from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Liberia

The Girl Empower intervention in Liberia, with a conditional cash transfer component, led to improvements in the sexual and reproductive health, gender attitudes, and life skills of 13 to 14-year-old adolescent girls, but did not improve sexual violence, schooling, psychosocial wellbeing, and protective factors outcomes.

Berk Özler, Kelly Hallman, Marie-France Guimond, Elizabeth A. Kelvin, Marian Rogers, Esther Karnley (2020)
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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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Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes in organizational language

Appointing women into top management might mitigate the gendered expressions in language that describe women as less agentic than men.

M. Asher Lawson, Ashley E. Martin, Imrul Huda, Sandra C. Matz (2022)
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Subtle Linguistic Cues Increase Girls’ Engagement in Science

Subtle shifts in linguistic cues, such as describing science as an action instead of as an identity, may decrease the gender gap in science among young children.

Marjorie Rhodes, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Kathryn M. Yee, Katya Saunders (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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Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements

Though most workers are not willing to accept lower wages for some types of flexible work arrangements (e.g., scheduling flexibility to set their own days and times of work at a fixed number of hours, or the ability to choose the number of hours they work), women are generally more willing than men to give up more of their pay in exchange for flexible work options such as working from home and avoiding irregular work hours, especially if they have young children.  

Amanda Pallais, Alexandre Mas (2017)
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Girl Empower – A gender transformative mentoring and cash transfer intervention to promote adolescent wellbeing: Impact findings from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Liberia

The Girl Empower intervention in Liberia, with a conditional cash transfer component, led to improvements in the sexual and reproductive health, gender attitudes, and life skills of 13 to 14-year-old adolescent girls, but did not improve sexual violence, schooling, psychosocial wellbeing, and protective factors outcomes.

Berk Özler, Kelly Hallman, Marie-France Guimond, Elizabeth A. Kelvin, Marian Rogers, Esther Karnley (2020)
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