Whether men and women are fundamentally different or similar has been debated for more
than a century. This review summarizes major theories designed to explain gender …

Women empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction,
development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and …

Persuasion plays an essential role in everyday social life. We use the term persuasion to
refer to any procedure with the potential to change someone's mind. Although persuasion …

Much has been written in the past two decades about women in academic science careers,
but this literature is contradictory. Many analyses have revealed a level playing field, with …

Abstract Greenwald, Poehlman, Uhlmann, and Banaji (2009; GPUB hereafter) reported an
average predictive validity correlation of Special Character=. 236 for Implicit Association …

This paper focuses on the workplace consequences of both descriptive gender stereotypes
(designating what women and men are like) and prescriptive gender stereotypes …

In an advanced society like the US, where an array of processes work against gender
inequality, how does this inequality persist? Integrating research from sociology, social …

Social behavior is ordinarily treated as being under conscious (if not always thoughtful)
control. However, considerable evidence now supports the view that social behavior often …

A role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders proposes that perceived
incongruity between the female gender role and leadership roles leads to 2 forms of …

It is now accepted wisdom that a major challenge facing managers in the next century will be
an increasingly diverse workforce. But what conclusions can be drawn from the research on …