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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.

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The interaction effect of gender and ethnicity in loan approval: A Bayesian estimation with data from a laboratory field experiment

In Bolivia, ethnic discrimination in microfinance prevents indigenous women from obtaining loans at the same rate as their non-indigenous counterparts.
Rolando Gonzales Martínez, Gabriela Aguilera-Lizarazu, Andrea Rojas-Hosse, Patricia Aranda Blanco (2019)
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Melanin and Curls: Evaluation of Black Women Candidates

For Black voters, skin tone and hairstyle may play important, interactive roles in their responses to Black women candidates.
Danielle Casarez Lemi, Nadia E. Brown (2019)
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Should I stay or should I go?: Penalties for briefly de-prioritizing work or childcare

Both men and women face repercussions for briefly stepping away from child-care or professional responsibilities, regardless of the reason for doing so. However, male employees are viewed as more dedicated to their job and as less risky for their workplace than their female counterparts.
Christina M. Sanzari, Alexandra Dennis, Corinne A Moss-Racusin (2021)
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The Beauty Myth: Prescriptive Beauty Norms for Women Reflect Hierarchy-Enhancing Motivations Leading to Discriminatory Employment Practices

The “prescriptive beauty norm” reflects a desire to enhance gender hierarchy and contributes to social policing of women and employment discrimination practices known as the “beauty tax.”
Leeat Ramati-Ziber, Nurit Shnabel, Peter Glick (2019)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Topic Overview

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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.

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Bias Icon
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Melanin and Curls: Evaluation of Black Women Candidates

For Black voters, skin tone and hairstyle may play important, interactive roles in their responses to Black women candidates.
Danielle Casarez Lemi, Nadia E. Brown (2019)
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The Beauty Myth: Prescriptive Beauty Norms for Women Reflect Hierarchy-Enhancing Motivations Leading to Discriminatory Employment Practices

The “prescriptive beauty norm” reflects a desire to enhance gender hierarchy and contributes to social policing of women and employment discrimination practices known as the “beauty tax.”
Leeat Ramati-Ziber, Nurit Shnabel, Peter Glick (2019)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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The interaction effect of gender and ethnicity in loan approval: A Bayesian estimation with data from a laboratory field experiment

In Bolivia, ethnic discrimination in microfinance prevents indigenous women from obtaining loans at the same rate as their non-indigenous counterparts.
Rolando Gonzales Martínez, Gabriela Aguilera-Lizarazu, Andrea Rojas-Hosse, Patricia Aranda Blanco (2019)
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Should I stay or should I go?: Penalties for briefly de-prioritizing work or childcare

Both men and women face repercussions for briefly stepping away from child-care or professional responsibilities, regardless of the reason for doing so. However, male employees are viewed as more dedicated to their job and as less risky for their workplace than their female counterparts.
Christina M. Sanzari, Alexandra Dennis, Corinne A Moss-Racusin (2021)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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