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Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

A weekly seminar during the academic year focused on understanding and closing gender gaps in the areas of economic opportunity, political participation, health, and education.

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Sexual Assault on College Campuses: A Behavioral Approach with Betsy Paluck and Ana Gantman

Sexual Assault on College Campuses: A Behavioral Approach with Betsy Paluck and Ana Gantman

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

9 Feb 2018

1hr 19mins

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Rape During Civil War with Dara Kay Cohen

Rape During Civil War with Dara Kay Cohen

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

8 Sep 2016

1hr 19mins

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Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping with Sabrina Karim

Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping with Sabrina Karim

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

23 Mar 2018

1hr 2mins

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What Works: Designing an Inclusive Workplace with Iris Bohnet

What Works: Designing an Inclusive Workplace with Iris Bohnet

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

15 Mar 2019

1hr 10mins

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Babies, Work, or Both? Highly-Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia with Mary Brinton

Babies, Work, or Both? Highly-Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia with Mary Brinton

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

22 Mar 2019

1hr 13mins

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They, Them, and Theirs: Including Nonbinary Gender Identities in Law and Policy with Jessica Clarke

They, Them, and Theirs: Including Nonbinary Gender Identities in Law and Policy with Jessica Clarke

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

1 Mar 2019

1hr 12mins

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The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood? with Jessica Pan

The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood? with Jessica Pan

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

23 Jan 2019

1hr 19mins

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Blurring the Boundaries Between the Social and Commercial Sectors with Lakshmi Ramarajan

Blurring the Boundaries Between the Social and Commercial Sectors with Lakshmi Ramarajan

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

22 Sep 2016

1hr 16mins

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The Influence of Sexual Orientation and Race on Gender Prescriptive Stereotypes with Sa-Kiera Hudson

The Influence of Sexual Orientation and Race on Gender Prescriptive Stereotypes with Sa-Kiera Hudson

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

16 Feb 2018

36mins

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To Delegate or not to Delegate: Gender Differences in Affective Associations and Behavioral Responses to Delegation with Modupe Akinola

To Delegate or not to Delegate: Gender Differences in Affective Associations and Behavioral Responses to Delegation with Modupe Akinola

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

23 Mar 2018

1hr 9mins

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Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Political Gender Gap with Soledad Prillaman

Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Political Gender Gap with Soledad Prillaman

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

23 Jan 2019

1hr 15mins

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HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series -- Transgender Military Service: What's at Stake in the Debate?

HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series -- Transgender Military Service: What's at Stake in the Debate?

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

26 Feb 2019

40mins

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Global Colorism with Trina Jones

Global Colorism with Trina Jones

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

22 Feb 2019

1hr 13mins

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Stereotype Threat and Professional Women’s Engagement: A Global Perspective with Zoe Kinias

Stereotype Threat and Professional Women’s Engagement: A Global Perspective with Zoe Kinias

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

23 Jan 2019

1hr 17mins

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The Long-run Effect of Maternity Leave Benefits on Mental Health: Evidence from European Countries with Lisa Berkman

The Long-run Effect of Maternity Leave Benefits on Mental Health: Evidence from European Countries with Lisa Berkman

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

7 Apr 2016

1hr 3mins

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Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias with Michela Carlana

Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias with Michela Carlana

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

23 Jan 2019

1hr 13mins

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Out of the Running? Gender and Race Differences in Political Ambition among HKS and Other Elite Millennials with Shauna Shames

Out of the Running? Gender and Race Differences in Political Ambition among HKS and Other Elite Millennials with Shauna Shames

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

23 Mar 2018

1hr 12mins

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What Does it Mean to “Help”? Investigating the Helping Orientations of Men Working in Elite Jobs with Stephanie Creary

What Does it Mean to “Help”? Investigating the Helping Orientations of Men Working in Elite Jobs with Stephanie Creary

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

23 Jan 2019

1hr 16mins

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Does Group Farming Empower Rural Women? India’s Experience with Bina Agarwal

Does Group Farming Empower Rural Women? India’s Experience with Bina Agarwal

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

23 Jan 2019

1hr 19mins

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Can Female Role Models Reduce the Gender Gap in Science? Evidence from Classroom Interventions in French High Schools with Clémentine Van Effenterre

Can Female Role Models Reduce the Gender Gap in Science? Evidence from Classroom Interventions in French High Schools with Clémentine Van Effenterre

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

1 Feb 2018

1hr 19mins

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