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- 08 Jan 2013
- News
Study Suggests Fix for Gender Bias on the Job
- 05 May 2022
- Video
Robin Ely Opening Remarks at 2022 Gender and Work Symposium
- 12 Feb 2020
- News
Gender Parity in the Boardroom Won’t Happen on Its Own
- 29 Jul 2022
- News
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
- 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.
- 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
- April 2021
- Case
Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ros Atkins
By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Ros Atkins launched the 50:50 Project on a BBC news program he anchored, deciding with his team to start tracking the gender of the contributors and experts featured on the show. Before long, it was clear that monitoring the data led to increased awareness of a gender... View Details
Keywords: Gender Equality; Allyship; Representation; Leadership; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Media; Analytics and Data Science
Groysberg, Boris, and Colleen Ammerman. "Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ros Atkins." Harvard Business School Case 421-075, April 2021.
- Fall 2021
- Article
Job-Hopping Toward Equity: Changing Employers Can Help Narrow the Gender Gap in Executive Compensation
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Eric Lin
Changing employers has been linked to larger pay increases for executives and managers. Although survey-based studies suggest that men gain more than women, an analysis of more than 2,000 job moves found that executive women are commanding bigger increases than men... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Eric Lin. "Job-Hopping Toward Equity: Changing Employers Can Help Narrow the Gender Gap in Executive Compensation." MIT Sloan Management Review 63, no. 1 (Fall 2021).
- 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.
- June 18, 2021
- Article
Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent
By: Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila and John-Paul Ferguson
Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect what is invented. Using text analysis of all U.S. biomedical patents filed from 1976 through 2010, we found that patents with all-female inventor teams are 35% more likely than... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Gender Bias; Health; Innovation and Invention; Research; Patents; Gender; Prejudice and Bias
Koning, Rembrand, Sampsa Samila, and John-Paul Ferguson. "Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent." Science 372, no. 6548 (June 18, 2021): 1345–1348.
- 19 May 2015
- News
Harvard aims to take on gender bias with new initiative
- 2013
- Backlash and the Double Bind
Peter Glick Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium
- 1999
- Chapter
Exploration of the Venture Capital Industry: Is Gender An Issue?
By: Myra Hart, C. Brush, P. Greene and P. Saparito
Hart, Myra, C. Brush, P. Greene, and P. Saparito. "Exploration of the Venture Capital Industry: Is Gender An Issue?" In Frontiers of Entrepreneurship, 1999: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Edited by W. Bygrave et al.. Babson Park, MA: Babson College, 1999.
- 2013
- Difference
Alice Eagly Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium
- 2013
- Organizational Change
Leslie Perlow Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium
- March 2007
- Article
Gender Effects and Stock Market Reactions to the Announcement of Top Executive Appointments
This study uses Kanter's token status theory to link announcements of top executives to shareholder reactions, highlighting possible gender effects. Using a sample of top executive announcements from 1990 to 2000, our results show that investor reactions to the... View Details