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- 14 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?
to broaden opportunities for women in the workplace over the intervening five years, but the COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench into many a working mom’s fragile work-life balance. Kathleen McGinn, the Harvard Business School scholar behind the original research,... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- June 2013
- Article
Dysfunction in the Boardroom: Understanding the Persistent Gender Gap at the Highest Levels
By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
The article examines the gender gap that is present in boardrooms in U.S. corporations and internationally in 2013 as more women attempt to reach executive-level positions. Countries in the European Union are attempting to institute laws regarding the minimum... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Governing and Advisory Boards; Gender; United States; European Union
Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell. "Dysfunction in the Boardroom: Understanding the Persistent Gender Gap at the Highest Levels." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 6 (June 2013): 88–97.
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Life & Leadership After HBS - Race, Gender & Equity
Life & Leadership After HBS Life & Leadership After HBS is a longitudinal study of the post-MBA paths of Harvard Business School alumni, examining how race, gender, and other factors shape their life and career experiences. Alumni are surveyed every three years, most... View Details
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
Just Digital Future Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Automating Inequality By: Virginia Eubanks 2018 Algorithms of Oppression By: Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 Race After Technology By: Ruha Benjamin 2019 In our Just Digital Future interview series, we spoke with great... View Details
- 05 Feb 2021
- News
What Happened When India Mandated Gender Diversity on Boards
- Article
On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms
By: Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Rohini Pande, Erica Field and Charity Troyer Moore
Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence norms around gender roles? We randomly varied whether rural Indian women received bank accounts, training in account use, and direct deposit of public sector wages into their own... View Details
Rigol, Natalia, Simone Schaner, Rohini Pande, Erica Field, and Charity Troyer Moore. "On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms." American Economic Review 111, no. 7 (July 2021): 2342–2375.
- January–March 2020
- Article
Improving Decisions that Affect Gender Equality in the Workplace
By: Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman
Chang, Edward H., and Katherine L. Milkman. "Improving Decisions that Affect Gender Equality in the Workplace." Special Issue on 21st Century Decision Making. Organizational Dynamics 49, no. 1 (January–March 2020).
- 05 Apr 2023
- Podcast
Richard Reeves on gender equity, Part 2: Work-life, learning
Has Covid prompted working fathers to reassess? In the continuation of their conversation on issues confronting boys and men, Joe Fuller and Richard Reeves consider work-life balance, distance learning and remote work. Also: defining productivity; and how higher... View Details
- 13 Nov 2013
- News
Gender Contamination: Why Men Prefer Products Untouched by Women
- Article
Gender Difference in Patenting in the Academic Life Science
Ding, Waverly, Fiona Murray, and Toby E. Stuart. "Gender Difference in Patenting in the Academic Life Science." Science 313, no. 5787 (August 4, 2006): 665–667.
- December 2005
- Article
Constraints and Triggers: Situational Mechanics of Gender in Negotiation
By: Hannah Riley Bowles, Linda C. Babcock and Kathleen McGinn
Bowles, Hannah Riley, Linda C. Babcock, and Kathleen McGinn. "Constraints and Triggers: Situational Mechanics of Gender in Negotiation." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 89, no. 6 (December 2005): 951–965.
- 29 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Will I Stay or Will I Go? How Gender and Race Affect Turnover at ‘Up-or-Out’ Organizations
Date of Event: May 10, 2010 Speakers: Kathleen McGinn Gender and racial inequalities continue to persist at "up-or- out" knowledge organizations such as law firms, making it difficult for women and minorities to advance to... View Details
- Fall 2021
- Article
Emboldening and Contesting Gender and Skin Color Stereotypes in the Film Industry in India, 1947–1991
By: Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones and Morgan Spencer
This article examines how the film industry influenced prevailing gender and skin color stereotypes in India during the first four decades after Independence in 1947. It shows that Bollywood, the mainstream cinema in India, shared Hollywood's privileging of paler skin... View Details
Keywords: Bollywood; Film Industry; Hollywood; Tamil Cinema; Male Gaze; Stereotypes; Social Impact; Gender; Race; Ethnicity; Film Entertainment; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India; United States
Sheth, Sudev, Geoffrey Jones, and Morgan Spencer. "Emboldening and Contesting Gender and Skin Color Stereotypes in the Film Industry in India, 1947–1991." Business History Review 95, no. 3 (Fall 2021): 483–515.
- 2005
- Working Paper
Constraints and Triggers: Situational Mechanics of Gender in Negotiation
By: Hannah Riley Bowles, Linda Babcock and Kathleen L. McGinn
- 04 Dec 2017
- News
Researchers Combat Gender and Racial Bias in Artificial Intelligence
- 08 Jan 2013
- News
Study Suggests Fix for Gender Bias on the Job
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
Are Investors the Ultimate Antidote to Gender Inequality in Leadership? Once respondents came to terms with my use of “gender equality” in the title of this month’s column they described several ways in which it might be achieved in our... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jul 2022
- News
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
- Article
Backlash Against Male Elementary Educators
By: Corinne A. Moss-Racusin and Elizabeth R. Johnson
We investigated the existence, nature, and processes underscoring backlash (social and economic penalties) against men who violate gender stereotypes by working in education, and whether backlash is exacerbated by internal (vs. external) behavioral attributions.... View Details
Moss-Racusin, Corinne A., and Elizabeth R. Johnson. "Backlash Against Male Elementary Educators." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 46, no. 7 (July 2016): 379–393.