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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.

Transgender prejudice reduction and opinions on transgender rights: Results from a mediation analysis on experimental data

Reading about gender identity reduces transphobia, increasing support for equality and accommodation policies for transgender people.
Andrew R. Flores, Donald P. Haider-Markel, Daniel C. Lewis, Patrick R. Miller, Barry L. Tadlock, Jami K. Taylor
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One size may not fit all: Exploring how the intersection of race and gender and stigma consciousness predict effective identity-safe cues for Black women

Featuring Black women scientists on science companies’ websites is one recruitment practice that can close gender and racial gaps within STEM fields by increasing feelings of trust and belonging for Black women job applicants.
Evava S. Pietri, India R. Johnson, Ezgi Ozgumus
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Two Brief Interventions to Mitigate a “Chilly Climate” Transform Women’s Experience, Relationships, and Achievement in Engineering

Interventions designed to counteract the negative psychological impacts of social marginalization can help close the gender gap in STEM fields. 
Gregory M. Walton, Christine Logel, Jennifer M. Peach, Steven J. Spencer, Mark P. Zanna
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Problems in the pipeline: Stereotype threat and women's achievement in high-level math courses

Social forces, such as stereotype threat, can cause women to underperform men in math examinations. This achievement gap can be closed or even reversed when strategies are implemented during testing that eliminate this threat, such as including statements at the beginning of an exam that indicate both genders tend to perform equally well on it.
Catherine Good, Joshua Aronson, Jayne Ann Harder
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Topic Overview

Bias Icon
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.

Two Brief Interventions to Mitigate a “Chilly Climate” Transform Women’s Experience, Relationships, and Achievement in Engineering

Interventions designed to counteract the negative psychological impacts of social marginalization can help close the gender gap in STEM fields. 
Gregory M. Walton, Christine Logel, Jennifer M. Peach, Steven J. Spencer, Mark P. Zanna
Read More

Transgender prejudice reduction and opinions on transgender rights: Results from a mediation analysis on experimental data

Reading about gender identity reduces transphobia, increasing support for equality and accommodation policies for transgender people.
Andrew R. Flores, Donald P. Haider-Markel, Daniel C. Lewis, Patrick R. Miller, Barry L. Tadlock, Jami K. Taylor
Read More

One size may not fit all: Exploring how the intersection of race and gender and stigma consciousness predict effective identity-safe cues for Black women

Featuring Black women scientists on science companies’ websites is one recruitment practice that can close gender and racial gaps within STEM fields by increasing feelings of trust and belonging for Black women job applicants.
Evava S. Pietri, India R. Johnson, Ezgi Ozgumus
Read More

Problems in the pipeline: Stereotype threat and women's achievement in high-level math courses

Social forces, such as stereotype threat, can cause women to underperform men in math examinations. This achievement gap can be closed or even reversed when strategies are implemented during testing that eliminate this threat, such as including statements at the beginning of an exam that indicate both genders tend to perform equally well on it.
Catherine Good, Joshua Aronson, Jayne Ann Harder
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