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.
What Works

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

Asking what we can do to create gender equity.

Participants discuss how to increase the number of women in local assemblies

Grassroot efforts that foster female politicians spread in Japan

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

women's U.S. soccer players celebrating win

Petition calls for equal pay for US women World Cup soccer champs

Monday, July 8, 2019

college students raising hands in classroom

Harvard prof tests tool to measure class participation by race, gender

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

empty college classroom

Harvard Professor Measures Class Participation by Race, Gender

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Research Focus

Recent Publications

Tanquerel, Sabrina, and Marc Grau-Grau. “Unmasking work-family balance barriers and strategies among working fathers in the workplace”. Organization (2019). Web. Publisher's Version

Carlana, Michela. “Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias”. Oxford Academic - The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2019). Web. Publisher's Version

Lai, C., and B. Mahzarin. “The Psychology of Implicit Intergroup Bias and the Prospect of Change”. PsyArXiv (2019). Web. Publisher's Version

lai_banaji_-_the_psychology_of_implicit_intergroup_bias_and_the_prospect_of_change.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

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