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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.

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 (2015)

Sexist Humor and Rape Proclivity: The Moderating Role of Joke Teller Gender and Severity of Sexual Assault

Sexist men have a higher proclivity to rape after reading sexist jokes told by a woman.

Mónica Romero Sánchez, Hugo Carretero-Dios, Jesus L. Megias, Miguel Moya, Thomas E. Ford (2017)

Are You My Mentor? A Field Experiment on Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Self-Starters

Gender does not significantly influence willingness to mentor within politics, but ethnicity may.

Joshua Kalla, Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Dawn L. Teele (2018)

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 (2008)

Algorithmic Bias? An Empirical Study into Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads

Despite explicit intentions to be gender neutral, a Facebook ad for STEM careers was shown more often to men than women, potentially due to economic forces and competition among advertisers.

Anja Lambrecht, Catherine Tucker (2018)

Insights into Sexism: Male Status and Performance Moderates Female-Directed Hostile and Amicable Behavior

In an online video game, lower-skilled male players are more hostile towards female players due to a female threat in a male-dominated social hierarchy.

Michael M. Kasumovic, Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff (2015)

Perpetuating online sexism offline: Anonymity, interactivity, and the effects of sexist hashtags on social media

Participating in online sexist behavior increases levels of hostile sexism and has offline impacts in the workplace.

Jesse Fox, Carlos Cruz, Ji Young Lee (2015)

The Matilda Effect in Science Communication: An Experiment on Gender Bias in Publication Quality Perceptions and Collaboration Interest

In science communication, the gender of an author as well as the gendered stereotypes assigned to their area of research impact the perceived scientific quality of their work: male scientists and “masculine” topics are frequently perceived as demonstrating higher scientific quality.

Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Carroll J. Glynn, Michael Huge (2013)

Class Advantage, Commitment Penalty: The Gendered Effect of Social Class Signals in an Elite Labor Market

Résumés signaling high socioeconomic class status made male applicants, but not female applicants, more likely to be selected for a job interview at elite law firms.

Lauren A. Rivera, András Tilcsik (2016)

Ethnic Variation in Gender-STEM Stereotypes and STEM Participation: An Intersectional Approach

Despite being an underrepresented group in STEM professions, Black women are relatively less likely than white women to associate STEM with masculinity, and more likely to begin STEM studies in college.

Laurie T. O'Brien, Alison Blodorn, Glenn Adams, Donna M. Garcia, Elliot Hammer (2015)

Topic Overview

Bias

Sexist Humor and Rape Proclivity: The Moderating Role of Joke Teller Gender and Severity of Sexual Assault

Sexist men have a higher proclivity to rape after reading sexist jokes told by a woman.

Mónica Romero Sánchez, Hugo Carretero-Dios, Jesus L. Megias, Miguel Moya, Thomas E. Ford (2017)

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

Catherine Good, Joshua Aronson, Jayne Ann Harder (2008)

Insights into Sexism: Male Status and Performance Moderates Female-Directed Hostile and Amicable Behavior

In an online video game, lower-skilled male players are more hostile towards female players due to a female threat in a male-dominated social hierarchy.

Michael M. Kasumovic, Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff (2015)

The Matilda Effect in Science Communication: An Experiment on Gender Bias in Publication Quality Perceptions and Collaboration Interest

Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Carroll J. Glynn, Michael Huge (2013)

Ethnic Variation in Gender-STEM Stereotypes and STEM Participation: An Intersectional Approach

Laurie T. O'Brien, Alison Blodorn, Glenn Adams, Donna M. Garcia, Elliot Hammer (2015)

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 (2015)

Are You My Mentor? A Field Experiment on Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Self-Starters

Gender does not significantly influence willingness to mentor within politics, but ethnicity may.

Joshua Kalla, Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Dawn L. Teele (2018)

Algorithmic Bias? An Empirical Study into Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads

Despite explicit intentions to be gender neutral, a Facebook ad for STEM careers was shown more often to men than women, potentially due to economic forces and competition among advertisers.

Anja Lambrecht, Catherine Tucker (2018)

Perpetuating online sexism offline: Anonymity, interactivity, and the effects of sexist hashtags on social media

Participating in online sexist behavior increases levels of hostile sexism and has offline impacts in the workplace.

Jesse Fox, Carlos Cruz, Ji Young Lee (2015)

Class Advantage, Commitment Penalty: The Gendered Effect of Social Class Signals in an Elite Labor Market

Résumés signaling high socioeconomic class status made male applicants, but not female applicants, more likely to be selected for a job interview at elite law firms.

Lauren A. Rivera, András Tilcsik (2016)

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