University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Normative Discrimination and the Gender Binary: Negative Evaluations of People with Nonconventional Pronouns

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Social Psychology Quarterly (2026) Authors: Chloe Grace Hart, Aliya Saperstein, Shelley J. Correll Abstract: Pronoun sharing has become a common inclusion practice in U.S. schools and workplaces. Drawing on normative discrimination theories, however, we predict that pronoun sharing can lead to negative evaluations of people who share nonconventional pronouns. In a preregistered survey experiment (N = 1,516), …

Tensions of Making Women’s Marginalization Salient in Men-Dominated Workplaces

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Work and Occupations (2024) Authors: Chloe Grace Hart Abstract: Why might women who experience gender-based bias and harassment at work shy away from efforts to address gender inequality in their workplaces? Drawing on data from 52 interviews with women working in the Silicon Valley tech industry, I show that efforts to address women’s marginalization in the …

Study Broadens Our Understanding of Workplace Sexual Harassment Faced by Gender Minorities

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A University of Wisconsin–Madison study has shown high rates of workplace sexual harassment experienced by transgender and nonbinary people and uncovered forms of harassment not previously documented in research.  The project is a collaboration between sociology graduate student Mariana Nozela Prado and IDS affiliate Chloe Grace Hart. Nozela Prado and Hart surveyed nearly 1,500 participants, …

Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era?

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Social Problems (2025) Author: Chloe Grace Hart Abstract: Evidence suggests that Americans became more sympathetic toward people who experienced sexual harassment as the MeToo movement surged. Yet how comprehensive these shifts in public opinion have been remains unclear. I hypothesize that women who experience workplace sexual harassment are judged against the archetype of an idealized …

Historically Excluded Groups in Ecology are Undervalued and Poorly Treated

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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (2023) Authors: Richard Primack, Tara Miller, Carina Terry, Erika Marín-Spiotta, Pamela Templer, Asmeret Berhe, Emily Diaz Vallejo, Meredith Hastings, Vicki Magley, Allison Mattheis, Blair Schneider, Rebecca Barnes Abstract: Hostile workplaces undermine efforts to make the ecological sciences more inclusive and welcoming. Survey responses by members of the Ecological Society of America …

Racial Disparities in the Auto Loan Market

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Review of Financial Studies (2023) Authors: Alexander Butler, Erik Mayer, and James Weston Abstract: We document racial disparities in auto lending. Combining credit bureau records with borrower characteristics, we find that Black and Hispanic applicants’ approval rates are 1.5 percentage points lower, even after controlling for creditworthiness. In aggregate, this effect crowds out 80,000 minority loans each …

Gender Bias in Promotions: Evidence from Financial Institutions

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Review of Financial Studies (2024) Authors: Ruidi Huang, Erik Mayer, and Darius Miller Abstract: We test for gender bias in promotions at financial institutions using two central predictions of Becker’s (1957, 1993) model: firms with bias will (1) raise the promotion bar for marginally promoted female workers, and (2) incur costs from forgoing efficient employment practices. We find support for both of …

The Impact of Minority Representation at Mortgage Lenders

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Journal of Finance (2023) Authors: W. Scott Frame, Ruidi Huang, Erica Jiang, Yeonjoon Lee, Will Liu, Erik Mayer, and Adi Sunderam Abstract: We study links between the labor market for loan officers and access to mortgage credit. Using novel data matching the (near) universe of mortgage applications to loan officers, we find that minorities are underrepresented among loan …

Contextual Inequality in the Performance Costs of Financial Precarity

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Journal of Management (2023) Authors: Jirs Meuris and Joe Gladstone Abstract: A substantial proportion of the workforce experiences financial precarity, which is defined as persistent concern about one’s personal financial welfare. Research suggests that financial precarity often harms performance at work. In this paper, we investigate whether characteristics of the work context disproportionately occupied by people at the …

Task Interdependence and the Gender Wage Gap: The Role of the Gender Composition of an Occupation

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Journal of Organizational Behavior (2023) Authors: Jirs Meuris and Allison Elias Abstract: People increasingly need to collaborate with others in their workplace to perform their jobs. Studies have shown that task interdependence can have important consequences for teams and organizations, and emerging research suggests that it may be contributing to gender inequality. In this paper, we …