Stereotype Accuracy: Do College Women Miss the Mark When Estimating the Impact of Maternal Employment on Children’s Development with Wendy Goldberg

Exploring Viewer Reactions to Media Coverage of Female Politicians wtih Joanna Everitt: The first is based on a paper I will be presenting at the ECPR conference in early September titled “Exploring Viewer Reactions to Media Coverage of Female Politicians.” This paper explores voters’ responses to non-verbal cues provided by politicians and... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Women and Power: Hard to Earn, Difficult to Signal, and Easy to Lose with Victoria Brescoll: Although women have made great in attaining positions of power in recent decades, there still remains barriers to women in not only continuing to attain these positions, but also in maintaining them. Women face different challenges than men in the quest ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Uncovering the Origins of the Gender Gap in Political Ambition: Early Life Experiences, Political socialization, and Candidate Emergence with Jennifer Lawless: Research on women’s candidate emergence identifies a substantial gender gap in political ambition that is well established by the time women and men enter the professions from which political candidates ten to emerge. More specifically, women are one-thi... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Gender Attitudes and Intra-household Bargaining: Effects on Career-life Outcomes Across the Globe with Kathleen McGinn: Gender inequality in workplaces and in homes around the globe reflects individual attitudes and abilities, intra-household bargaining and legal and socio-cultural influences. Research that considers factors across the individual, household and cultural l... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Explaining Rape During Civil War with Dara Kay Cohen: Why do some armed groups commit massive wartime rape, while others never do? Using an original dataset, I describe the substantial variation in rape by armed actors during recent civil wars and test a series of competing causal explanations. I find evide... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Imposed Versus Desired Professional Identities: Embracing, Passing, Revealing and their Consequences with Erin Reid: This field study of a strategy consulting firm explores how men and women cope with organizational pressures to construct a professional identity that involves full devotion to work. Reid finds that while some people easily embrace this imposed identity,... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Gender and Group Decision-Making: Eliciting and Acting Upon Expertise with Katie Coffman: From faculty meetings and student projects to corporate boards and consulting firms, many decisions are made by groups rather than by individuals. In these settings, individuals may bring differing levels of knowledge and expertise to the table; therefor... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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What Works: Gender Equality, By Design: With gender equality increasingly a business imperative, in addition to being a human right, many leaders across the sectors wonder how we can get there. In the first WAPPP Seminar of 2015-16, Professor Bohnet discusses her forthcoming book "What Works: ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success? with Lakshmi Iyer: We examine whether women’s electoral success induces greater female political participation in subsequent elections using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men, and constituency level data on India’s state electio... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Progress on Gender Diversity for Corporate Boards: Are We Running in Place? with Cathy Tinsley: Despite rhetoric supporting the advancement of women on corporate boards, the evidence of any progress in the last decade is meager (outside countries with mandated gender quotas). Archival board data (approximately 5000 U.S. publicly traded firms) from ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices with Muriel Niederle: Gender differences in education choices are persistent, with females being much less likely to choose STEM fields than males. What, if any, is the role of gender differences in psychological attributes that have received a lot of attention in the behavio... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Intra-Household Bargaining Power in the Context of HIV Prevention: An Application to Married Couples in Rural Malawi with Berit Gerritzen: Gender inequality has been identified by UNAIDS as a key driver of the HIV epidemic. In Sub-Saharan Africa, where two-thirds of all HIV-infected people live, young women are up to eight times more likely than men to be infected. Using panel data from the... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Work-Family Policy in the U.S. with Jane Waldfogel: The American family is changing, but our public policies have not kept pace. In 1967, 2/3 of American children had at least one stay-at-home parent, and only 1/3 had all their parents working. Today, because of increases in maternal employment (and singl... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Do boys and girls respond differently to academic competition? with Robert Jensen: This paper examines whether social stigma or peer sanctions associated with academic achievement or effort adversely affects girls’ school performance (in absolute terms, or relative to boys). The effects of the introduction of a point system and “leader... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Opting Out among Women with Elite Education: Evidence, Causes, and Societal Consequences with Joni Hersch: Hersch’s research shows that female graduates of elite institutions have lower labor market involvement than their counterparts from less selective institutions, with the gap most pronounced among those with children, and especially mothers with an MBA. ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Gender and Moral Decision-Making wtih Jooa Julia Lee: Virtually all normative and descriptive models of moral judgment view an agent’s gender as irrelevant to judgments of moral permissibility — whether an action such as sacrificing one life to save five others is carried out by a man or a woman does not qu... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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More Women Can Run with Kira Sanbonmatsu: Sanbonmatsu discusses her new book (coauthored with Susan J. Carroll), titled “More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures,” (Oxford University Press, 2013). Analyzing nationwide surveys of state legislators conducted by the Center ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense: Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality in Organizations with Robin Ely: Why has women’s professional advancement stalled? A widely accepted explanation is that women’s family obligations conflict with long hours of jobs, hampering their advancement into senior organizational positions. The commonly championed solution has... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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From Sexual Harassment to Selective Mistreatment: The Regulation of Gender at Work with Jennifer L. Berdahl: Debate abounds about why women continue to be underrepresented in top management positions and in male-dominated domains. This presentation reviews research on an often subtle, but powerful and pervasive, organizational force that discourages men and wom... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Stereotype Accuracy: Do College Women Miss the Mark When Estimating the Impact of Maternal Employment on Children’s Development with Wendy Goldberg: Decades after the second wave feminist movement, how do today’s college-aged women think about the effects of combining work and motherhood on children’s outcomes? In Goldberg’s study, she compared how students estimated the effect to meta-analytic effec... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Countering Counterstereotypicality: The Influence of Decision Contexts and Role Models on Women's Risk Preference with Heidi Liu: Research on gender and risk taking indicates men have a greater tolerance for risk compared to women. This seminar explores the effects of gendered contextual cues on women’s risk preferences. Heidi Liu discuses experimental and archival data that finds ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Linking Non-Cognitive Skills and Educational Achievement to Girls in Developing Societies: The Case of Ghana with Sally Nuamah by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity with Jeni Klugman: The constraints facing women and girls worldwide range from epidemic levels of gender-based violence to biased laws and norms that prevent them from owning property, working, and making decisions about their own lives. The World Bank’s new book, “Voice a... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Reducing the Caretaker Penalty: Norms, Laws and Organizational Policy with Shelley Correll: A growing body of research finds that mothers and other caretakers experience disadvantages in the workplace. Professor Correll will present recent research that uncovers the social psychological mechanisms producing these disadvantages. Her argument dem... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Different Ways of Not Having It All: Work, Care, and Gender Change in the New Economy with Kathleen Gerson: Gender inequality in workplaces and in homes around the globe reflects individual attitudes and abilities, intra-household bargaining and legal and socio-cultural influences. Research that considers factors across the individual, household and cultural l... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Reserving Time for Daddy: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Fathers' Quotas with Ankita Patnaik: Paternity leave, men's role in childcare, and their work-life balance have become more commonly discussed topics by policymakers and business leaders. What kinds of policies succeed in getting fathers involved in their children's lives from the beginning... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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The Hillary Doctrine: How Sex Came to Matter in American Foreign Policy with Valerie Hudson: Now that Hillary Clinton is out of government—for the time being at least—this is an opportune time to reflect on the origins and development of the Hillary Doctrine, the challenges and controversy it engendered while she was Secretary of State, and how ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Gender Inequality: A Comparative View of the Challenges Ahead with Mary Brinton and Claudia Goldin: Gender Inequality persists to varying degrees across post-industrial economies. The seminar introduces the new Weatherhead Initiative at Harvard to study comparative gender inequality in OECD countries and outlines some of the major scholarly and policy ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Women's Career Negotiations with Hannah Riley Bowles: Hannah Riley Bowles will review some of the latest research on how gender influences career-related negotiations and discuss practical implications. Participants will receive a workbook with questions to help them prepare for career-related negotiations. by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Competing At All Costs: Dysfunctional Competition and Gender with Pinar Fletcher: Costly sabotage occurs when individuals risk incurring losses in order to hurt their competitors. When are individuals more likely to engage in such dysfunctionally competitive behavior? Are there any gender differences in propensity to engage in costly ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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