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Unconscious biases often prevent employers from hiring and retaining women and other underrepresented groups. Explore the interventions that both help women navigate these innate barriers in workplace and find out how institutions can "debias" their organizational processes.  

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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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He's Overqualified, She's Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment

Evidence suggests overqualification (i.e., possessing more qualifications than necessary for a job) impacts hiring outcomes for women and men differently.
Elizabeth Lauren Campbell, Oliver Hahl (2022)
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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)
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When accomplishments come back to haunt you: the negative effect of competence signals on women's performance evaluations

Women with higher achievements tend to have lower performance evaluations when assessed by male evaluators who are more likely to align their beliefs with group-based hierarchies in society.
M. Ena Inesi, Daniel M. Cable (2014)
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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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A Longer Shortlist Increases the Consideration of Female Candidates in Male-Dominant Domains

Extending candidate shortlists (which are typically used as an informal recruitment process in organizations) could help close the gender gap in hiring. 
Brian J. Lucas, Zachariah Berry, Laura M. Giurge, Dolly Chugh (2021)
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The Effect of Task Choice and Task Assignment on the Gender Wage Gap: An Experimental Study

In an experimental study in the U.S., when women are assigned a harder, higher-paid task, they experience an increase in earnings, regardless of whether they stated a preference for an easier or more challenging task. 
Kai Ou, Xiaofei Pan (2021)
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Missing Women in Tech: The Labor Market for Highly Skilled Software Engineers

Without self-promotion, female software engineers are left behind in tech recruitment.
Raviv Murciano-Goroff (2021)
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Topic Overview

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Talent Management

Unconscious biases often prevent employers from hiring and retaining women and other underrepresented groups. Explore the interventions that both help women navigate these innate barriers in workplace and find out how institutions can "debias" their organizational processes.  

Image
Bias Icon
Image
Leadership Icon
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Talent Management Icon

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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He's Overqualified, She's Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment

Evidence suggests overqualification (i.e., possessing more qualifications than necessary for a job) impacts hiring outcomes for women and men differently.
Elizabeth Lauren Campbell, Oliver Hahl (2022)
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When accomplishments come back to haunt you: the negative effect of competence signals on women's performance evaluations

Women with higher achievements tend to have lower performance evaluations when assessed by male evaluators who are more likely to align their beliefs with group-based hierarchies in society.
M. Ena Inesi, Daniel M. Cable (2014)
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A Longer Shortlist Increases the Consideration of Female Candidates in Male-Dominant Domains

Extending candidate shortlists (which are typically used as an informal recruitment process in organizations) could help close the gender gap in hiring. 
Brian J. Lucas, Zachariah Berry, Laura M. Giurge, Dolly Chugh (2021)
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Missing Women in Tech: The Labor Market for Highly Skilled Software Engineers

Without self-promotion, female software engineers are left behind in tech recruitment.
Raviv Murciano-Goroff (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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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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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)
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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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The Effect of Task Choice and Task Assignment on the Gender Wage Gap: An Experimental Study

In an experimental study in the U.S., when women are assigned a harder, higher-paid task, they experience an increase in earnings, regardless of whether they stated a preference for an easier or more challenging task. 
Kai Ou, Xiaofei Pan (2021)
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