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The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp

Employment opportunities for refugees significantly boosted their psychological well being. For women refugees, it also increased their perceptions of household power and intolerance for intimate partner violence.

Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane, Fatima Zahra (2022)
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The Influence of Female Directors on Product Recall Decisions

Having more women on the board leads to companies being more proactive about minor defects and more responsive to major defects in their products.

Kaitlin D. Wowak, George P. Ball, Corinne Post, David J. Ketchen Jr. (2020)
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Perceptions of women of color who claim compound discrimination: Interpersonal judgments and perceived credibility

Claims of compound discrimination (from women of color suffering from sexism and racism) are perceived as neither more troublemaking nor less credible than claims of sexism or racism alone

Jessica D. Remedios, Samantha H. Snyder, Charles A. Lizza (2016)
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Benefit-Finding Improves Well-Being among Women Who Have Experienced Gender Discrimination

Encouraging women to reflect on the lessons of past experiences of sexist discrimination can improve subjective well-being, while also motivating action for positive change. 

Ariel J. Mosley, Nyla R. Branscombe (2020)
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Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment

Light-touch, employer-led interventions did not break down opposition to women’s employment in Karnataka, India. 

Joshua T. Dean, Seema Jayachandran (2019)
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Gender Attitudes in adolescence: evaluating the Girl Rising gender-sensitization program in India

Gender sensitization programs revealed positive results in guiding adolescents towards equitable views and positively influence their understanding of gender norms.  

Amita N. Vyas, G. Malhotra, N.C. Nagaraj, M. Landry (2019)
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Leadership Selection: Can Changing the Default Break the Glass Ceiling?

Gender leadership gaps could be reduced by giving women the choice to opt out of rather than opt into a leadership role. 

Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, Erte Xiao (2022)
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On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms

By directly depositing wages into women’s own bank accounts paired with information sessions teaching them how to use bank accounts, India’s public workfare program increased female labor force participation in Madhya Pradesh.

Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore (2021)
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Effects of health behavior change intervention through women’s self-help groups on maternal and newborn health practices and related inequalities in rural India: A quasi-experimental study

In India, women from most marginalized populations disproportionately benefit from women’s self-help groups receiving maternal and newborn health behavior change communication interventions.  

Avishek Hazra, Yamini Atmavilas, Katherine Hay, Niranjan Saggurti, Raj Kumar Verma, Jaleel Ahmad, Sampath Kumar, P.S. Mohanan, Dileep V. Mavalankar, Laili Irani (2019)
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Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation

Switching from a plurality to a proportional representation system increases equality in electoral participation along one central dimension: gender.

Øyvind Søraas Skorge (2021)
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The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp

Employment opportunities for refugees significantly boosted their psychological well being. For women refugees, it also increased their perceptions of household power and intolerance for intimate partner violence.

Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane, Fatima Zahra (2022)
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Perceptions of women of color who claim compound discrimination: Interpersonal judgments and perceived credibility

Claims of compound discrimination (from women of color suffering from sexism and racism) are perceived as neither more troublemaking nor less credible than claims of sexism or racism alone

Jessica D. Remedios, Samantha H. Snyder, Charles A. Lizza (2016)
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Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment

Light-touch, employer-led interventions did not break down opposition to women’s employment in Karnataka, India. 

Joshua T. Dean, Seema Jayachandran (2019)
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Leadership Selection: Can Changing the Default Break the Glass Ceiling?

Gender leadership gaps could be reduced by giving women the choice to opt out of rather than opt into a leadership role. 

Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, Erte Xiao (2022)
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Effects of health behavior change intervention through women’s self-help groups on maternal and newborn health practices and related inequalities in rural India: A quasi-experimental study

In India, women from most marginalized populations disproportionately benefit from women’s self-help groups receiving maternal and newborn health behavior change communication interventions.  

Avishek Hazra, Yamini Atmavilas, Katherine Hay, Niranjan Saggurti, Raj Kumar Verma, Jaleel Ahmad, Sampath Kumar, P.S. Mohanan, Dileep V. Mavalankar, Laili Irani (2019)
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The Influence of Female Directors on Product Recall Decisions

Having more women on the board leads to companies being more proactive about minor defects and more responsive to major defects in their products.

Kaitlin D. Wowak, George P. Ball, Corinne Post, David J. Ketchen Jr. (2020)
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Benefit-Finding Improves Well-Being among Women Who Have Experienced Gender Discrimination

Encouraging women to reflect on the lessons of past experiences of sexist discrimination can improve subjective well-being, while also motivating action for positive change. 

Ariel J. Mosley, Nyla R. Branscombe (2020)
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Gender Attitudes in adolescence: evaluating the Girl Rising gender-sensitization program in India

Gender sensitization programs revealed positive results in guiding adolescents towards equitable views and positively influence their understanding of gender norms.  

Amita N. Vyas, G. Malhotra, N.C. Nagaraj, M. Landry (2019)
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On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms

By directly depositing wages into women’s own bank accounts paired with information sessions teaching them how to use bank accounts, India’s public workfare program increased female labor force participation in Madhya Pradesh.

Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore (2021)
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Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation

Switching from a plurality to a proportional representation system increases equality in electoral participation along one central dimension: gender.

Øyvind Søraas Skorge (2021)
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