Most Read Articles of 2019
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
December 16th, 2019
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December 09th, 2019
“Further Exploration Needed in Women”—the Hidden Sexism in Scientific Research
Science is set up in a way that systematically penalizes research on females and female-related health issues…but not necessarily for the reasons you think.
December 03rd, 2019
Gendered Division of Labor Served a Purpose. To Make Progress, Don’t Erase It. Replace It.
To eliminate women’s “second shift,” we need to understand its origins.
June 19th, 2019
Who Asks Questions, And What It Tells Us
Does assessing question-asking behavior give us valuable data about women’s empowerment and gender equality? Or does it simply give us one piece of data from a much larger pie?
April 09th, 2019
How Better Urban Planning Can Improve Gender Equality
In the mid-1990s, public officials in Vienna found something surprising when they studied who was using their public parks.
March 12th, 2019
Venture Capitalists Are Using the Wrong Tools to Improve Gender Diversity
It is time for venture capitalists to stop trying to change hearts and minds and start redesigning their firms.
November 20th, 2018
A Fresh Approach to Understanding Sexual Assault: A Conversation with Betsy Levy Paluck
The stories we tell about sexual assault—the lone, serial predator—oversimplifies the truth and obscures the solution. Betsy Levy Paluck is one of the researchers trying to tell a more accurate story.
July 18th, 2018
What Happens When We Give Everything a Gender
Is your wineglass feminine or masculine? That question sparked research on whether we stereotype or not.
June 26th, 2018
How Performance Evaluations Hurt Gender Equality
Performance evaluations are designed to be meritocratic. Unfortunately, they can exacerbate the very gender inequities they are striving to reduce.
May 31st, 2018
What We Learned By Failing to Make Work Better for Female Staff
Trainings to remove bias are mostly ineffective, and can even backfire. What, then, is the way forward?
