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Bias

At the root of gender inequality is bias – both implicit and explicit. Gender bias can impact advancement in education, careers, and beyond. Learn what stereotypes exist, how they can be harmful, and practices and policies that can help us move beyond bias barriers to experience our full potential.

Unconscious Bias Interventions for Business: An Initial Test of WAGES-Business (Workshop Activity for Gender Equity Simulation) and Google’s “re:Work” Trainings

Experiential learning may be more effective in training employees to recognize and address unconscious bias than less interactive anti-bias initiatives.

Kaitlin McCormick-Huhn, Lizbeth M. Kim, Stephanie A. Shields (2020)

Language Influences Public Attitudes toward Gender Equality

People speaking genderless languages, (i.e. languages without references to objects as male or female), may exhibit more egalitarian views about women's roles in politics and society.

Efrén O. Pérez, Margit Tavits (2019)

Were California’s Decarceration efforts smart? A quasi-experimental examination of racial, ethnic, and gender disparities

Decarceration efforts that do not explicitly address racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in incarceration rates risk exacerbating such gaps, even as they reduce overall incarceration.

Aaron Gottlieb, Pajarita Charles, Branden McLeod, Jean Kjellstrand, Janaé Bonsu (2020)

Dual-anonymization Yields Promising Results for Reducing Gender Bias: A Naturalistic Field Experiment of Applications for Hubble Space Telescope Time

Anonymizing information, such as gender, about grant applicants reduced gender bias, particularly in male reviewers, who tended to rate female applicants significantly worse than male applicants.

Stefanie K. Johnson, Jessica F. Kirk (2020)

Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation

In male-dominated fields, quantitative performance ratings for judging a professor’s merit elicit more gender bias when ratings are assessed on a 10-point scale than when assessed on a 6-point scale.

Lauren A. Rivera, András Tilcsik (2019)

The Effects of Gender Neuroessentialism on Transprejudice: An Experimental Study

Exposure to essentialist ideas that ground the male/female binary in biology may lead to more prejudice against transgender people, whereas exposure to ideas that question such essentialist claims may help counteract this prejudice.

Boby Ho-Hong Ching, Jason Teng Xu (2018)

Women and African Americans are less influential when they express anger during group decision-making

During negotiations, expressing anger decreases influence for women and African Americans but does not decrease the influence of white men.

Jessica M. Salerno, Liana C. Peter-Hagene, Alexander C. V. Jay (2019)

(Sex) Crime and Punishment in the #MeToo Era: How the Public Views Rape

Certain legally irrelevant features of rape (such as details relating to the victim's clothing and past criminal history) decrease respondents’ likelihood of reporting an incident and its perceived severity.

Susanne Schwarz, Dara Kay Cohen, Matthew Baum (2020)

The Mixed Effects of Online Diversity Training

One-off online diversity and anti-bias trainings may be effective in changing employee attitudes, but do not change behaviors in the workplace.

Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dena M. Gromet, Robert W. Rebele, Cade Massey, Angela L. Duckworth, Adam M. Grant (2019)

Do School Counselors Exhibit Bias in Recommending Students for Advanced Coursework?

Black female students are statistically least recommended and rated as least prepared for AP Calculus by high school counselors, which has implications for their likelihood of success in the long-term.

Dania V. Francis, Angela de Oliveira, Carey Dimmitt (2019)

Topic Overview

Bias

Language Influences Public Attitudes toward Gender Equality

People speaking genderless languages, (i.e. languages without references to objects as male or female), may exhibit more egalitarian views about women's roles in politics and society.

Efrén O. Pérez, Margit Tavits (2019)

Dual-anonymization Yields Promising Results for Reducing Gender Bias: A Naturalistic Field Experiment of Applications for Hubble Space Telescope Time

Anonymizing information, such as gender, about grant applicants reduced gender bias, particularly in male reviewers, who tended to rate female applicants significantly worse than male applicants.

Stefanie K. Johnson, Jessica F. Kirk (2020)

The Effects of Gender Neuroessentialism on Transprejudice: An Experimental Study

Boby Ho-Hong Ching, Jason Teng Xu (2018)

(Sex) Crime and Punishment in the #MeToo Era: How the Public Views Rape

Susanne Schwarz, Dara Kay Cohen, Matthew Baum (2020)

Do School Counselors Exhibit Bias in Recommending Students for Advanced Coursework?

Dania V. Francis, Angela de Oliveira, Carey Dimmitt (2019)

Unconscious Bias Interventions for Business: An Initial Test of WAGES-Business (Workshop Activity for Gender Equity Simulation) and Google’s “re:Work” Trainings

Experiential learning may be more effective in training employees to recognize and address unconscious bias than less interactive anti-bias initiatives.

Kaitlin McCormick-Huhn, Lizbeth M. Kim, Stephanie A. Shields (2020)

Were California’s Decarceration efforts smart? A quasi-experimental examination of racial, ethnic, and gender disparities

Decarceration efforts that do not explicitly address racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in incarceration rates risk exacerbating such gaps, even as they reduce overall incarceration.

Aaron Gottlieb, Pajarita Charles, Branden McLeod, Jean Kjellstrand, Janaé Bonsu (2020)

Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation

Lauren A. Rivera, András Tilcsik (2019)

Women and African Americans are less influential when they express anger during group decision-making

During negotiations, expressing anger decreases influence for women and African Americans but does not decrease the influence of white men.

Jessica M. Salerno, Liana C. Peter-Hagene, Alexander C. V. Jay (2019)

The Mixed Effects of Online Diversity Training

One-off online diversity and anti-bias trainings may be effective in changing employee attitudes, but do not change behaviors in the workplace.

Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dena M. Gromet, Robert W. Rebele, Cade Massey, Angela L. Duckworth, Adam M. Grant (2019)