Gender and the Future of Work

The world of work is changing. While COVID-19 has accelerated existing trends (e.g., in remote work, e-commerce, and automation), cutting- edge technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence) are fundamentally transforming the nature of work and the workplace itself. We ask in this symposium, does the changing nature of work and workplaces influence men's and women's career outlooks, outcomes, and overall satisfaction differently, and if so, how and why? To this end, we assemble and synthesize research that deepens our understanding of the potential intersections between gender and the future of work. We bring together a set of papers that applies a gendered lens to the future of work by focusing on changes in the material and non-material aspects of work, including how work is done, when work gets done, and norms and beliefs about who does what, and how changes may influence men's and women's labor market outcomes differently. Hiring with Algorithmic Fairness Constraints: Theory and Empirics Author: Prasanna Parasurama; Emory U., Goizueta Business School Changes in Working Parents’ Satisfaction During the COVID-19 Pandemic Author: Shiya Wang; Harvard Business School Employers’ Shifting Views of Stay-at-Home Fathers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Author: Julia Lee Melin; Stanford U. How Established Firms Sustain the Gender Gap in High-Growth Technology Entrepreneurship Author: Eliot Sherman; London Business School Female Leadership and Corporate Inequality: Evidence from Archival and Experimental Data Author: Isabelle Solal; ESSEC Business School