Does Exposure to Gender Role Models Increase Women’s Political Ambition? A Field Experiment with Politicians
Exposure to gender role models increases women’s interest in political current events but does not increase their ambition to become involved in politics.
Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence from Randomly Assigned General Practitioners
Girls who have female doctors in childhood are significantly more likely to pursue STEMM fields in their education. This exposure to female doctors can also improve their intergenerational mobility.
Women Leaving the Playpen: The Emancipating Role of Female Suffrage
Being socialized at a young age in a society with female political empowerment, specifically women’s suffrage, increases a girl’s likelihood to participate in the labor force, divorce, and attain education as an adult.
The Effectiveness of a One-year Online Mentoring Program for Girls in STEM
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.
Heidrun Stoeger,
Xiaoju Duan,
Sigrun Schirner,
Teresa Greindl,
Albert Ziegler
Academic performance and single-sex schooling: Evidence from a natural experiment in Switzerland
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.
Gerald Eisenkopf,
Zohal Hessami,
Urs Fischbacher,
Heinrich W. Ursprung
Fix the Game – Not the Dame: A Team Intervention for Gender Equality in Leadership
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.
Jamie Lee Gloor,
Manuela C. Morf,
Samantha Paustian-Underdahl,
Uschi Backes-Gellner
Does Exposure to Gender Role Models Increase Women’s Political Ambition? A Field Experiment with Politicians
Exposure to gender role models increases women’s interest in political current events but does not increase their ambition to become involved in politics.
Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence from Randomly Assigned General Practitioners
Girls who have female doctors in childhood are significantly more likely to pursue STEMM fields in their education. This exposure to female doctors can also improve their intergenerational mobility.
Academic performance and single-sex schooling: Evidence from a natural experiment in Switzerland
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.
Gerald Eisenkopf,
Zohal Hessami,
Urs Fischbacher,
Heinrich W. Ursprung
Women Leaving the Playpen: The Emancipating Role of Female Suffrage
Being socialized at a young age in a society with female political empowerment, specifically women’s suffrage, increases a girl’s likelihood to participate in the labor force, divorce, and attain education as an adult.
The Effectiveness of a One-year Online Mentoring Program for Girls in STEM
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.
Heidrun Stoeger,
Xiaoju Duan,
Sigrun Schirner,
Teresa Greindl,
Albert Ziegler
Fix the Game – Not the Dame: A Team Intervention for Gender Equality in Leadership
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.
Jamie Lee Gloor,
Manuela C. Morf,
Samantha Paustian-Underdahl,
Uschi Backes-Gellner
