Scientists show positive effects of affirmative action policies promoting women
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 14:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Interventions to promote women have continuously been criticized as ineffective and inhibiting performance. Economists of the University of Innsbruck have now rejected this criticism; they conducted a series of experiments which examined the efficiency and effects of various interventions to increase women's willingness to enter competition. The study has been published in the current issue of Science.