Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series
Education:Higher Education
Men and women respond differently to risk. Women are more risk averse
than men, which has a significant impact on how they make decisions.
Exploring this topic, Alexandra van Geen runs a series of experiments to
evaluate under what conditions women and men are more or less willing
to take risks. Specifically, she examines whether women and men are more
likely to take risks when the financial reward is higher; if they are
sensitive to the presence of other risks in the decision environment; or
whether winning in the past makes them more likely to take risk in the
future. She finds stark gender differences, including that men greatly
increase risk taking after winning a lottery, while women do not.
Investigating how, when and why men and women respond differently in
risky environments can help close the gender gap in risk taking.
Organizing for the US Equal Rights Amendment: Strategic Strengths and Failures
Shifting Policy, Workplace Norms and Culture to End Workplace Sexual Violence
HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series: LGBT Ex-Combatants in Colombia
Do Sexual Harassment Programs Make Workplaces More Hospitable to Women?
Unintended Consequences of Diversity Initiatives: Types, Causes, and Interventions
Babies, Work, or Both? Highly-Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia with Mary Brinton
What Works: Designing an Inclusive Workplace with Iris Bohnet
They, Them, and Theirs: Including Nonbinary Gender Identities in Law and Policy with Jessica Clarke
HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series -- Transgender Military Service: What's at Stake in the Debate?
Global Colorism with Trina Jones
Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Political Gender Gap with Soledad Prillaman
Does Group Farming Empower Rural Women? India’s Experience with Bina Agarwal
The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood? with Jessica Pan
Stereotype Threat and Professional Women’s Engagement: A Global Perspective with Zoe Kinias
What Does it Mean to “Help”? Investigating the Helping Orientations of Men Working in Elite Jobs with Stephanie Creary
Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias with Michela Carlana
Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping with Sabrina Karim
Out of the Running? Gender and Race Differences in Political Ambition among HKS and Other Elite Millennials with Shauna Shames
To Delegate or not to Delegate: Gender Differences in Affective Associations and Behavioral Responses to Delegation with Modupe Akinola
The Influence of Sexual Orientation and Race on Gender Prescriptive Stereotypes with Sa-Kiera Hudson
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