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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 …

Sexual Harassment and Hierarchical Workplace Relationships after #MeToo: Consequences for Women Subordinates

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Socius (2024) Authors: Chloe Grace Hart and Heather McLaughlin Abstract: The #MeToo movement illustrated how higher-ups may abuse their power by engaging in sexual harassment and generated heightened concern about hierarchical workplace romantic relationships. In a survey experiment, the authors test whether sexual attention from a superordinate outside one’s reporting chain (desired or not) leads to …