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Pamela Stone Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium
- 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.
- 2013
- Stereotypes
Jack Dovidio Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium
- 2009
- Article
Shedding Light on the Gender Gap through Randomized Field Studies
By: Connie Chen, Felipe Kast and Dina D. Pomeranz
Chen, Connie, Felipe Kast, and Dina D. Pomeranz. "Shedding Light on the Gender Gap through Randomized Field Studies." Insights: Closing the Global Gender Gap (2009).
- 21 May 2013
- Video
Leslie Perlow Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium
- 21 May 2013
- Video
Ella Bell Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium
- 2016
- Working Paper
Experimental Evidence on Policies Aimed at Closing the Gender Gap in Willingness to Guess on Multiple-Choice Tests
Research has shown that women skip more questions than men on multiple-choice tests with penalties for wrong answers. We propose and test five policy changes aimed at eliminating this source of gender bias in test scores. Our data show that simply removing the penalty... View Details
- Article
Repairing the Damage: The Effect of Price Knowledge and Gender on Auto-Repair Price Quotes
By: Meghan Busse, Ayelet Israeli and Florian Zettelmeyer
In this paper we investigate whether sellers treat consumers differently on the basis of how well informed consumers appear to be. We implement a large-scale field experiment in which callers request price quotes from automotive repair shops. We show that sellers alter... View Details
Keywords: Pricing; Price Discrimination; Automobiles; Field Experiment; Information; Fairness; Price; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Internet and the Web; Gender; Service Industry; Auto Industry
Busse, Meghan, Ayelet Israeli, and Florian Zettelmeyer. "Repairing the Damage: The Effect of Price Knowledge and Gender on Auto-Repair Price Quotes." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 54, no. 1 (February 2017): 75–95.
- 29 Mar 2023
- Podcast
Richard Reeves on gender equity, Part 1: Addressing male struggles
Brookings scholar Richard V. Reeves makes the case for tailoring school and employment opportunities to the realities of boys and men. View Details
- 21 May 2013
- Video
Alice Eagly Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium
- 29 May 2021
- Video
Danielle Allen Presents at the 2021 Gender and Work Symposium
- 21 May 2013
- Video
Amy Cuddy Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium
- 21 May 2013
- Video
Pamela Stone Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium
- 2013
- Organizational Change