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Decision Making

Topic Overview

Decision Making

Employers, communities, and households benefit when women have greater opportunity and agency. However, Women are typically under-represented in decision making positions across the world. Examine how gender affects decision-making and discover the procedures that help all people become better decision makers.

Is Blinded Review Enough? How Gendered Outcomes Arise Even Under Anonymous Evaluation

Innovative research by women is underfunded because of gender differences in writing style.

Julian Kolev, Yuly Fuentes-Medel, Fiona E. Murray (2019)

History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women

Reminders of historic injustices against women increase men’s denial of current gender discrimination, thereby decreasing their support for employment equity policies that aim to promote the hiring of women.

Ivona Hideg, Anne E. Wilson (2020)

Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men

When employers are informed that the norm is to hire more candidates of one gender, they tended to not exhibit norm-abiding behavior, with men demonstrating backlash.

Maliheh Paryavi, Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen (2019)

One Angry Woman: Anger Expression Increases Influence for Men, but Decreases Influence for Women, During Group Deliberation

During group deliberations, the act of expressing anger increases a man’s influence but decreases a woman’s influence.

Jessica M. Salerno, Liana C. Peter-Hagene (2015)

How Does Media Influence Social Norms? A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge.

A radio program in Mexico decreased personal and perceived social acceptance of violence against women.

Eric Arias (2019)

A woman’s place is in the…startup! Crowdfunder judgments, implicit bias, and the stereotype content model

When seeking investors via crowdfunding, female entrepreneurs benefit from the stereotype that they are more trustworthy than male entrepreneurs.

Michael A. Johnson, Regan M. Stevenson, Chaim R. Letwin (2018)

‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

Single, career-driven women feel the pressure to “act wife”, downplaying professionally beneficial qualities like ambition, in order to reduce negative perceptions from potential male partners.

Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara, Amanda Pallais (2017)

Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects  of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations

In the high-tech industry, women without technical expertise are less likely to be awarded venture capital than their male counterparts who lack this same technical expertise. This gender gap does not exist when comparing men and women who both possess technical skill.

Justine Tinkler, Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Manwai C. Ku, Andrea Rees Davies (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.

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

Using Experiential Learning to Increase the Recognition of Everyday Sexism as Harmful: The WAGES Intervention

Hands-on learning techniques are more effective in teaching about sexism, reducing information rejection and increasing feelings of self-empowerment.

Jessica L. Cundiff, Cinnamon L. Danube, Stephanie A. Shields, Matthew J. Zawadzki (2014)

Topic Overview

Decision Making

History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women

Ivona Hideg, Anne E. Wilson (2020)

One Angry Woman: Anger Expression Increases Influence for Men, but Decreases Influence for Women, During Group Deliberation

During group deliberations, the act of expressing anger increases a man’s influence but decreases a woman’s influence.

Jessica M. Salerno, Liana C. Peter-Hagene (2015)

A woman’s place is in the…startup! Crowdfunder judgments, implicit bias, and the stereotype content model

When seeking investors via crowdfunding, female entrepreneurs benefit from the stereotype that they are more trustworthy than male entrepreneurs.

Michael A. Johnson, Regan M. Stevenson, Chaim R. Letwin (2018)

Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects  of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations

Justine Tinkler, Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Manwai C. Ku, Andrea Rees Davies (2015)

Using Experiential Learning to Increase the Recognition of Everyday Sexism as Harmful: The WAGES Intervention

Hands-on learning techniques are more effective in teaching about sexism, reducing information rejection and increasing feelings of self-empowerment.

Jessica L. Cundiff, Cinnamon L. Danube, Stephanie A. Shields, Matthew J. Zawadzki (2014)

Is Blinded Review Enough? How Gendered Outcomes Arise Even Under Anonymous Evaluation

Innovative research by women is underfunded because of gender differences in writing style.

Julian Kolev, Yuly Fuentes-Medel, Fiona E. Murray (2019)

Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men

When employers are informed that the norm is to hire more candidates of one gender, they tended to not exhibit norm-abiding behavior, with men demonstrating backlash.

Maliheh Paryavi, Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen (2019)

How Does Media Influence Social Norms? A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge.

A radio program in Mexico decreased personal and perceived social acceptance of violence against women.

Eric Arias (2019)

‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

Single, career-driven women feel the pressure to “act wife”, downplaying professionally beneficial qualities like ambition, in order to reduce negative perceptions from potential male partners.

Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara, Amanda Pallais (2017)

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

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

Topic Overview

Decision Making

Is Blinded Review Enough? How Gendered Outcomes Arise Even Under Anonymous Evaluation

History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women

Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men

One Angry Woman: Anger Expression Increases Influence for Men, but Decreases Influence for Women, During Group Deliberation

How Does Media Influence Social Norms? A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge.

A woman’s place is in the…startup! Crowdfunder judgments, implicit bias, and the stereotype content model

‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations

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

Using Experiential Learning to Increase the Recognition of Everyday Sexism as Harmful: The WAGES Intervention

Topic Overview

Decision Making

History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women

One Angry Woman: Anger Expression Increases Influence for Men, but Decreases Influence for Women, During Group Deliberation

A woman’s place is in the…startup! Crowdfunder judgments, implicit bias, and the stereotype content model

Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations

Using Experiential Learning to Increase the Recognition of Everyday Sexism as Harmful: The WAGES Intervention

Is Blinded Review Enough? How Gendered Outcomes Arise Even Under Anonymous Evaluation

Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men

How Does Media Influence Social Norms? A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge.

‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

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

Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects  of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations

Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects  of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations