In the Swedish labor market, the prevalence of either men or women in particular occupations cannot be explained by hiring discrimination.

Sexist men have a higher proclivity to rape after reading sexist jokes told by a woman.

An online mentoring program in Germany supports girls’ development in STEM, with greater reach and similarly positive results when compared to traditional in-person mentoring.

Female students in all-female classes experience less stereotype threat and perform better in their mathematics grades than their female peers in coeducational classes, with no difference in their language grades.

In majority male teams, both male and female team members rated male leaders as more exemplary than female leaders, but this effect was eliminated in more gender-balanced teams.

When exposed to information about the positive effects of formal childcare, women with more education were more likely to stay in the labor force and use daycare, while women with less education actually decreased their willingness to stay in the labor force.

Subtle exposure to highly successful female leaders improves women’s performance and self-evaluations in stressful leadership tasks.    

Gender gaps in risk taking and altruism—two differences offered as contributing factors to wage and labor market gender gaps—begin by adolescence, where girls are found to be more altruistic, less risk taking, and equally as competitive as boys, except in the area of math.

Business teams with an equal number of women and men perform better in terms of sales and profits, than do male-dominated teams.

Boys are more likely than girls to engage in competition and this gender gap affects girls’ willingness to choose math intensive tracks in their school and future careers.