Topic: Gender Gap
Why So Few Women in STEM Fields: The Role of Middle-School Peer Influence
Notion that boys are innately better at math undermines girls’ self-belief
How a Stock Analyst’s Face Affects Their Earning Estimates
Trustworthy and dominant-seeming men: access to corporate management. Dominant-seeming women: not so much.
Do the Benefits of Pay Transparency Accrue Mostly to Employers?
Revealed compensation might motivate workers to do more, without a raise
Shorter Workweek Could Help Close the Gender Wage Gap
Study of medical residencies shows shift in women’s specialty choices when hours reduced
Long Before COVID-19, School Summer Breaks Disrupted Women’s Careers
Households with kids ages 6 to 12 feel the interruption most
Opting Women into Competition Could Help Narrow Gender Gap
Fixing the process and abandoning the mindset of ‘fixing the women’
Downplaying Femininity in Cover Letters for Male-Dominated Job Backfires
Omitting female-typical language, in the eyes of hiring managers, makes a woman less ‘likable’
Wage Transparency Might Make Income Inequality Even Worse
Unintended consequences in trying to apply market solutions
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Math Gender Gap: Nonexistent for Blacks, Notable for Affluent Whites
Well-to-do families doting on their sons at daughters’ expense?
White Men Admire a Company That Employs White Women
But white men, seeing African American women employed, don’t react so favorably
All Along the Pipeline, Men Promote Men
At one bank, the cumulative effect of male bonding accounts for 39% of the gender pay gap
Gender Gaps in School Performance
Socioeconomic factors magnify the boy-girl divide and can explain cross-race differences