2-page summaries for practitioners of cutting-edge research articles published recently in academic journals
Research indicates that gender-neutral policies actually led to higher tenure rates among men and lower tenure rates among women, widening the promotion gap in academia.
The limited types of Black masculinities that are acknowledged and recognized in schools contribute to the racially-biased treatment of students.
This study finds that women are more likely than men to reveal efforts to achieve work-life balance, and thus face greater penalties.
This study looks at how men view themselves as fathers, and how organizations are constraining or empowering men to adopt more engaged parenting identities.
This study explores the role of gender blindness and finds that gender blindness can improve women’s confidence without requiring women to change their behaviour.
Researchers conducted 73 life history interviews with MBA graduates twelve years after graduation, in order to examine the factors contributing to diverging career pathways for men and women.
This study argues that the concept of entrepreneurship, as it applies to women’s work, masks many of the uncertainties and contradictions that accompany being one’s own boss while working at home.
Looking at STEM workers in the oil and gas industry, this study finds significant differences in how men and women conceptualize work-life balance.
Researchers use diary entries and interviews to show how college students’ socialization into the field of engineering leads women to believe that they are a “bad fit."
This study provides evidence that the gender of the initial person filling a gender-neutral role, has lasting consequences for how that role is subsequently perceived.
