Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?

By Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, P. Topalova. 2008

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State and Development: The Need for a Reappraisal of the Current Literature† (2016, result): “…course, even apart from immediate benefits targeting, the more important consideration may be that political reservation may have effects in empowering and confidence-building in potential leaders from disadvantaged groups over a longer period, as shown in the case of women by Beaman et al (2009).”
Voting Technology, Political Responsiveness, and Infant Health: Evidence From Brazil (2015, methodology): “To systematically assess which parties gained from the introduction of EV, I rely on a measure of party position in a uni-dimensional left-to-right scale from Power and Zucco (2009) to define party ideological positions.”
Do Electoral Quotas Work after They Are Withdrawn? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India (2009, neutral): “…of people’s decisions to run for office (Chhibber 2002; Fox and Lawless 2004), the literature on party (Sanbonmatsu 2006) and voter perceptions (Barry, Honour, and Palnitkar 2004; Beaman et al. 2008; Hajnal 2001) of minority candidates, and the literature on changing social norms (Mackie 1996).”
Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams* (2018, neutral): “What may be required is exposure to female leaders at the relevant level (Beaman et al., 2009; Bertrand et al., 2014).”
Women Empowerment and Economic Development (2012, background): “In West Bengal, where women complained more often than men about water and roads, reserved councils invested more in water and roads.”
Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-Analysis Plan (2012, background): “…studied here, and changes to the rules of formal institutions, like female leadership quotas, the existing evidence suggests that the latter may be a more effective way to alter de facto power dynamics and social perceptions in a modest timeframe (Chattopadhyay and Duflo 2004; Beaman et al. 2009).”
Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments? (2014, background): “…higher female representation in leadership roles may accelerate gender equality both in the short run, by attracting high-ability women to such roles, and in the long run, by exposing society to female leadership and accelerating changes in social norms (see for example Beaman et al., 2009).”
The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries (2015, background): “Moreover,thisreformhasbeguntoreshape attitudestowardwomenasleaders(Beaman et al.2009) and raised the aspirations of and long-term investments in girls (Beaman et al. 2012).”
Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India (2012, background): “This last result is consistent with previous research showing that men’s (but not women’s) perception of women’s ability to lead improved in reserved village councils (28).”
Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India (2013, neutral): “…and related public goods valued by women (Chattopadhyay and Duflo, 2004b), improved perceptions of women by men when exposed to women in leadership roles and greater aspirations for younger women (Beaman et al., 2009, 2012), greater reporting of crimes against women (Iyer et al., 2012), and more.”