Gender - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2013
News

Educate Everyone About Second-Generation Gender Bias

March 2022
Article

Gender Gaps in Venture Capital Performance

By: Paul A. Gompers, Vladimir Muhkarlyamov, Emily Weisburst and Yuhai Xuan

We explore gender differences in performance in a comprehensive sample of venture capital investments in the United States. Investments by female venture capital investors have significantly lower success rates than investments by their male colleagues when controlling... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Performance; Gender

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2022
Working Paper

Beliefs about Gender Differences in Social Preferences

By: Christine L Exley, Oliver P. Hauser, Molly Moore and John-Henry Pezzuto

While there is a vast (and mixed) literature on gender differences in social preferences, little is known about believed gender differences in social preferences. This paper documents robust evidence for believed gender differences in social preferences. Across a wide... View Details

Keywords: Social Preferences; Gender; Behavior; Attitudes; Values and Beliefs

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11 Jun 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game

Keywords: by Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

16 Jul 2020
News

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman's Self-Confidence

Blog

What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

deeply. We found that gender biases affect women at all stages of their careers and create barriers to advancement. Identifying and understanding the commonalities in many women's experiences is an important first step to overcoming the... View Details

23 Sep 2015
News

Explaining Gender Differences at the Top

18 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative

The HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative was established at the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic year and publicly launched in May 2015. As part of their launch, the Initiative released new research from Professor Kathleen McGinn,... View Details

2008
Working Paper

Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game

By: Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn

We propose a two-level-game (Putnam, 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level 1, candidates negotiate with the employers. At Level 2, candidates negotiate with domestic partners. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Jobs and Positions; Game Theory; Gender

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08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

1991 and 2009, a period when the growing number of highly educated women in the workforce tested widely held understandings about gender and professional work, write the authors, Harvard Business School professors Lakshmi Ramarajan and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

11 Feb 2019
News

Research: When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive

27 Jan 2011
News

The Gender Advantage for Multinational Firms

04 Apr 2019
HBS Conference

Gender and Work Symposium

08 Jun 2015
News

Gender integration in consulting

One of the first women to be recruited by McKinsey & Company, pioneer Joan Griewank Colligan (MBA 1964) eventually launched her own practice as an independent consultant. (Published June 2015) View Details

30 Jun 2015
Video

Gender Differences in Health, Wellness, and Healthcare

News

The New Gender Gaps

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

Held on the HBS campus in late February, the conference on "Gender and Work: Challenging Conventional Wisdom" brought together scholars and practitioners for a thoughtful, forward-looking discussion about gender in... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish