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.

Formalized workplace sponsorship programs benefit men far more than women, but harnessing the positive impact of sponsors’ confidence in female protégés’ abilities could help close gender gaps.

Both male and female employers are less likely to hire women for arithmetic tasks, even though both genders perform equally well.  This gap persists even when employers receive information about the candidate’s past performance.

Mentoring young female professors in economics, an academic field in which women are historically underrepresented, can lead to an increase in their likelihood of staying in academia and of receiving tenure at a top 30 or 50 economics program in the world,  relative to their peers without mentors.

High-level female role models, whose success seems unattainable, negatively affects younger women’s self-perceptions and leadership aspirations; however, mid-level female role models do not.

When a woman is the only female in a high-prestige work group, she is unlikely to recruit another woman to her team for fear of being outperformed or undervalued, however, she is just as likely to recruit another woman when the high-prestige work group is already majority female.

Providing information about male and female employees’ individual contributions to a group task, or information about female employees’ competence in previous tasks, reduces negative assessments about women’s contribution to group work.

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

Mothers face penalties in hiring, starting salaries, and perceived competence while fathers can benefit from being a parent.

Men evaluate women as contributing less leadership and having fewer skills when there are two women in a group compared to when there are one or three.