Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

Dr. Betsy Paluck and Dr. Ana Gantman present a behavioral perspective on campus sexual assault. Prominent models of sexu... Read more

Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massi... Read more

In this seminar, Sabrina Karim focuses on the role women have played in peacekeeping, arguing that increasing the number... Read more

Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds ... Read more

Only two OECD countries continue to exhibit an M-shaped curve of female labor force participation across the life cycle:... Read more

Nonbinary gender identities have quickly gone from obscurity to prominence in American public life, with growing accepta... Read more

After decades of convergence, the gender gap in employment outcomes has recently plateaued in many wealthy countries, de... Read more

This seminar explores how gender is enacted by founders of social ventures. In particular, Lakshmi Ramarajan looks at ho... Read more

Gender stereotypes persist in society. Many of these stereotypes are prescriptive, indicating how men and women should b... Read more

Do women and men view delegation differently? In this seminar, Modupe Akinola shares her research showing that women imb... Read more

In India, there persists a striking gender gap in political participation and representation. This political gender gap ... Read more

This HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series event features Aaron Belkin, Professor of Political Science at San Francisco... Read more

Scholars have widely discussed colorism – the differential treatment of same-race individuals based on skin color – with... Read more

How does women's concern about confirming gender stereotypes (i.e., stereotype threat) predict their engagement in profe... Read more

Maternity leave policies have known effects on short-term child outcomes. However, little is known about the long-run im... Read more

In this seminar, Michela Carlana analyzes the impact of teachers' gender stereotypes on student achievement. She collect... Read more

Millennials are often publically criticized for being apathetic about the American political process and their lack of i... Read more

Despite efforts to diversify the ranks of top management across the private and public sectors, women and racial minorit... Read more

Few programs for economically empowering rural women focus primarily on farming—the one occupation in which women have t... Read more

In this seminar, Clémentine Van Effenterre assesses whether a short in-class intervention by an external female role mod... Read more