13063: Addressing Gender Inequality in Organizations: New Insights on the Impact of Employer Practices

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

10:15 - 11:45 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: MR181

Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Diversity
Highlight: Showcase Symposium
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/d6nRGX

Organizer(s)

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Alexandra Kalev

Tel Aviv University

Discussant(s)

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Lauren A. Rivera

Northwestern Kellogg School of Management, United States

Participant(s)

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Julia Lee Melin

Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business, United States
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Sharon Koppman

U. of California, Irvine, United States
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Ming De Leung

U. of California, Irvine, United States
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Jillian Chown

Northwestern Kellogg School of Management, United States
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Sarah Kaplan

U. of Toronto, Canada

Organizer(s)

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Leroy Gonsalves

Boston U. Questrom School of Business, United States

Participant(s)

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Sarah Thebaud

University of California Santa Barbara, United States
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Jill Yavorsky

U. of North Carolina at Charlotte

Employer practices powerfully shape gender inequality in organizations by allocating opportunities and specifying how work should be accomplished. In this symposium, we bring together scholars who share a concern about understanding how employer practices can be a source of change for reducing gender inequality in organizations. The five papers in this symposium each shed light on how particular employer practices—remote training, sorting of employees into career paths, assignment of work tasks, tenure extensions, and work-life policies—affect women’s wage and career outcomes. Our discussant, Lauren Rivera, a leading scholar in the study of workplace inequality, will close our symposium by synthesizing the presented papers and facilitating a discussion with the audience regarding the future directions for this important topic. Through this symposium, we aim to generate new insights about how scholars can continue to study and improve the research on employer practices and gender inequality in organizations.