Hannah Riley Bowles Named Co-Director of WAPPP

Hannah is a preeminent scholar of gender in negotiation and women's leadership advancement.
Harvard Gender Course Guide 2018-2019

A list of courses across the University with a primary or secondary focus on gender by interdisciplinary topic.
WAPPP Launches Research Portfolio on Gender and Technology

The research portfolio will fund projects that use behavioral science and technology to remove gender bias in the tech sector.
From Harvard Square to the Oval Office

Learn to run for office through hands-on training, grow your network, and connect with women who have been elected to office.
Find Interventions to Close Gender Gaps

Summarized research on the impact of policies, strategies, and organizational practices aimed at closing gender gaps.
7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process

Unconscious bias plays a big role in whom we hire. Use these seven strategies to reduce bias in your organization.
What Works

You are biased, but don’t get defensive! We all are. Behavioral design provides new ways to overcome gender bias.
HUBweek: Designing Inclusive Organizations

A conversation with WAPPP Director Iris Bohnet and WBUR's Meghna Chakrabarti.

Asking what we can do to create gender equity.

The Hot New Thing In The Democratic Party: White Men

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Venture Capitalists - Improving Gender Equality

Venture Capitalists Are Using the Wrong Tools to Improve Gender Diversity

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

The little-known experiment that shows quotas can change more than politics

The little-known experiment that shows quotas can change more than politics

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Bloomberg

Ranking the U.S. States by Gender Equality

Friday, March 8, 2019

Research Focus

Recent Publications

Bohnet, Iris. “Informational inequity aversion and performance”. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 159.March (2019): , 159, March, 181-191. Web. Publisher's Version

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Paryavi, M., and I. Bohnet. “Descriptive Norms and Gender Diversity: Reactance from Men”. Journal of Behavioral Public Administration 21 (2019). Web. Publisher's Version

51-anonymized_manuscript_submission_.pdf-374-1-10-20190221.pdf

Barboni, Giorgia, et al. A Tough Call: Understanding barriers to and impacts of women's mobile phone adoption in India. Cambridge, MA: Evidence for Policy Design, Harvard Kennedy School, 2018. Web. Publisher's Version

a_tough_call_epod.pdf

New Research on Gender Action Portal

National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track
by Wendy M. Williams & Stephen J. Ceci

Overdoing Gender: A Test of the Masculine Overcompensation Thesis
by Robb Willer, Christabel Rogalin, Bridget Conlon & Michael T Wojnowicz

Academic performance and single-sex schooling: Evidence from a natural experiment in Switzerland
by Gerald Eisenkopf, Zohal Hessam, Urs Fischbacher & Heinrich W. Ursprung

Wallflowers: Experimental Evidence of an Aversion to Standing Out
by Daniel Jones & Sera Linardi

Harvard Gender Course Guide 2018-2019

Spring 2019 Seminar Series Calendar

Spring 2019 Research Seminar Calendar

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