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Decision Making

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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.

Narrow Prototypes and Neglected Victims: Understanding Perceptions of Sexual Harassment

When it comes to sexual harassment, people perceive women who possess less feminine features as less credible victims and view their perpetrators as less deserving of harsh punishment.

Jin X. Goh, Bryn Bandt-Law, Nathan N. Cheek, Stacey Sinclair, Cheryl R. Kaiser (2021)

Empowered by Absence: Does male out-migration empower female household heads left behind?

Women from households with male migrants are more likely to own assets than women from non-immigrant households; however, there is no improvement in their decision-making over productive use of resources.

Adnan M.S. Fakir, Naveen Abedin (2020)

Cash transfers, migration, and gender norms

Cash transfers affect women and men's livelihoods differently when it comes to the reasons for why they choose to migrate.

Melissa Hidrobo, Valerie Mueller, Shalini Roy (2021)

The Effect of Gender-Targeted Transfers: Experimental Evidence From India

Evidence from India suggests gender-targeted cash transfer programs can empower women in household decision-making processes but have little effect on household expenditures, savings, income, or nutrition.

Ingvild Almås, Vincent Somville, Lore Vandewalle (2020)

Building Safer Public Spaces: Exploring Gender Difference in the Perception of Safety in Public Space through Urban Design Interventions

In London, perceptions of safety in public spaces increased with the removal of solid walls, especially among women.

Pablo Navarrete-Hernandez, Arielle Vetro, Paz Concha (2021)

What’s in a Pronoun: Exploring Gender Pronouns as an Organizational Identity-Safety cue among Sexual and Gender minorities

The inclusion of gender pronouns in organization materials can serve as an effective identity-safety cue to gender and sexual minorities.

India R. Johnson, Evava S. Pietri, David M. Buck, Roua Daas (2021)

The Effect of Task Choice and Task Assignment on the Gender Wage Gap: An Experimental Study

In an experimental study in the U.S., when women are assigned a harder, higher-paid task, they experience an increase in earnings, regardless of whether they stated a preference for an easier or more challenging task.

Kai Ou, Xiaofei Pan (2021)

Which Identity Frames Boost Support for and Mobilization in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement? An Experimental Test

Framing the Black Lives Matter movement through Black nationalist, feminist, or LGBTQ+ rights lenses produces varied effects on African Americans' attitudes about the movement and willingness to support it.

Tabitha Bonilla, Alvin B. Tillery Jr (2020)

Challenge-seeking and the gender wage gap: A lab-in-the-field experiment with cleaning personnel

A greater range of task options can motivate female employees to take on challenges and, as a result, benefit from potential higher earnings.

Frauke von Bieberstein, Stefanie Jaussi, Claudia Vogel (2020)

Good intentions aren't good enough: Moral courage in opposing sexual harassment

Observers of sexual harassment intend to report incidents at much higher rates than they actually do. Women, however, are more likely to report observing sexual harassment than men.

Rachael Goodwin, Jesse Graham, Kristina A. Diekmann (2020)

Topic Overview

Decision Making

Empowered by Absence: Does male out-migration empower female household heads left behind?

Adnan M.S. Fakir, Naveen Abedin (2020)

The Effect of Gender-Targeted Transfers: Experimental Evidence From India

Ingvild Almås, Vincent Somville, Lore Vandewalle (2020)

What’s in a Pronoun: Exploring Gender Pronouns as an Organizational Identity-Safety cue among Sexual and Gender minorities

The inclusion of gender pronouns in organization materials can serve as an effective identity-safety cue to gender and sexual minorities.

India R. Johnson, Evava S. Pietri, David M. Buck, Roua Daas (2021)

Which Identity Frames Boost Support for and Mobilization in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement? An Experimental Test

Tabitha Bonilla, Alvin B. Tillery Jr (2020)

Good intentions aren't good enough: Moral courage in opposing sexual harassment

Observers of sexual harassment intend to report incidents at much higher rates than they actually do. Women, however, are more likely to report observing sexual harassment than men.

Rachael Goodwin, Jesse Graham, Kristina A. Diekmann (2020)

Narrow Prototypes and Neglected Victims: Understanding Perceptions of Sexual Harassment

When it comes to sexual harassment, people perceive women who possess less feminine features as less credible victims and view their perpetrators as less deserving of harsh punishment.

Jin X. Goh, Bryn Bandt-Law, Nathan N. Cheek, Stacey Sinclair, Cheryl R. Kaiser (2021)

Cash transfers, migration, and gender norms

Cash transfers affect women and men's livelihoods differently when it comes to the reasons for why they choose to migrate.

Melissa Hidrobo, Valerie Mueller, Shalini Roy (2021)

Building Safer Public Spaces: Exploring Gender Difference in the Perception of Safety in Public Space through Urban Design Interventions

In London, perceptions of safety in public spaces increased with the removal of solid walls, especially among women.

Pablo Navarrete-Hernandez, Arielle Vetro, Paz Concha (2021)

The Effect of Task Choice and Task Assignment on the Gender Wage Gap: An Experimental Study

Kai Ou, Xiaofei Pan (2021)

Challenge-seeking and the gender wage gap: A lab-in-the-field experiment with cleaning personnel

A greater range of task options can motivate female employees to take on challenges and, as a result, benefit from potential higher earnings.

Frauke von Bieberstein, Stefanie Jaussi, Claudia Vogel (2020)

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