Gender - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 19, 2021
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How to Be a 'Glass-Shattering' Organization

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

Advancing gender equality is certainly desirable, but may not seem vital during this turbulent time — yet that assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, losing sight of gender equity right now is likely to put you at a real disadvantage when the pandemic... View Details

Keywords: Gender Equity; Gender Inclusivity; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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2022
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Laura Morgan Roberts performs at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium

2019
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The Means-Influence-Ability (MI, A) Model of Agency for Gender and Leadership

2022
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David Thomas presents at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium

28 Mar 2012
Working Paper Summaries

When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation

Keywords: by Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen & Max H. Bazerman

2012
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When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation

By: Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen and Max H. Bazerman

We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an "evaluation nudge," in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Performance Evaluation; Gender

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15 Nov 2021
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Research: Customers Will Reward Companies for Smaller Gender Pay Gaps

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

a cultural double standard of unconscious bias that I don’t think is getting enough attention and HBS could help educate future leaders and change our culture.” AGE 48, WHITE, WHOLESALE/RETAIL TRADE, UNITED STATES Composition of Senior Leadership The View Details

2022
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Banu Özkazanç-Pan presents at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium

2016
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Gender Differences in Altruism: Responses to a Natural Disaster

By: Matthew Lilley and Robert Slonim

High-profile disasters can cause large spikes in philanthropy and volunteerism. By providing temporary positive shocks to the altruism of donors, these natural experiments help identify heterogeneity in the distributions of the latent altruism which motivates donors.... View Details

Keywords: Altruism; Charitable Behavior; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Gender; Behavior

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14 Nov 2019
Video

Health Minute: The Impact of Gender on Clinical Outcomes

30 Mar 2022
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Women in Sports: Gender and Equity in the Olympics and Beyond

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Gender Bias, Social Impact Framing, and Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Ventures

By: Matthew Lee and Laura Huang

Recent studies find that female-led ventures are penalized relative to male-led ventures due to role incongruity, or a perceived “lack of fit,” between female stereotypes and expected personal qualities of business entrepreneurs. We examine whether social impact... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Framework; Perception; Performance Evaluation

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15 Sep 2022
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Colleen Ammerman: Gender and Human Capital

September 2018 (Revised March 2019)
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The Gender Gap In U.S. History

By: Zoë B. Cullen, Tom Nicholas and Sophie Kainen

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22 Sep 2016
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Reinventing the way we view gender

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Timeline 1607 Jamestown A Short History of Jamestown Jamestown Colony 1619 Enslaved Africans brought to Point Comfort, Virginia The 1619 Landing — Report & FAQs First African Slave Ship Arrives at Jamestown Colony Virginia's First... View Details