Chloe Grace Hart
Biographic Data
| ID | 256474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chloe Grace Hart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chloe Grace |
| FAMILY NAME | Hart |
| SIGNATURE | HART C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8082-0484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Are Occupations Associated with Women Devalued? A Causal Test
Empirical evidence from the labor market suggests that when an occupation is associated with women it is devalued, but without tight experimental control, these studies cannot establish that the relationship is causal. In a series of preregistered survey experiments, I test whether U.S. residents devalue three distinct occupations when they are feminine-typed rather than masculine-typed. I independently vary two gendered dimensions of each occupa…
Reading the Room
Research identifies an organization’s climate toward sexual harassment as the strongest predictor of sexual harassment prevalence. Yet how employees come to perceive their organization’s climate toward sexual harassment has not been explored. Drawing on data from 35 interviews with restaurant workers in Madison, Wisconsin, we show that workers overwhelmingly draw from their experiences and interactions in the workplace, rather than written organi…
Normative Discrimination and the Gender Binary
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), participants rated a fictitious potential teammate whose name and pronouns were varied. Participants reported significantly less comfort working wi…
Tensions of Making Women's Marginalization Salient in Men-Dominated Workplaces
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 men-dominated tech industry are complicated by the inscription of negative, gender essentialist stereotypes about women into narratives about why such in…
Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era
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 target of sexual harassment and deemed less credible when they fall short. Using data from a novel multifactorial surv…
Sexual Harassment and Hierarchical Workplace Relationships after #MeToo
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 stereotyping and resultant career penalties. A woman employee who reported sexual harassment was seen as less warm and …
Who Believes Gender Research? How Readers’ Gender Shapes the Evaluation of Gender Research
Prior research finds that relative to women, men are less receptive to scientific evidence of gender bias against women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, whereas the researcher’s gender does not influence evaluations of gender research. Do these effects hold for research documenting workplace gender inequalities more generally? In a preregistered survey experiment fielded on Prolific, survey participants were shown tweets from…
Trajectory Guarding
Sexual interactions often involve implicit, ambiguous behavior, yet research on unwanted sexual interactions in the workplace largely focuses on interactions that are explicitly sexual. Drawing on 84 interviews with tech industry workers, I show that unwanted, ambiguously sexual interactions are relatively commonplace in their workplaces. Ambiguously sexual interactions can take multiple interactional trajectories, but one possibility is that the…
Where's the Beef? How Masculinity Exacerbates Gender Disparities in Health Behaviors
Men in the United States have higher rates of life-threatening diseases than do women, in part due to behavioral differences in health practices. We argue that men's enactment of masculinity in their daily lives contributes to health behavior differences. We focus on meat consumption, a masculine-stereotyped dietary practice that epidemiological studies have linked to negative health outcomes. In study 1, nationally representative survey data ind…
The Penalties For Self-Reporting Sexual Harassment
Although sexual harassment in the workplace is illegal, it often goes unreported. This study employs causal evidence to evaluate one deterrent to reporting: bias against women known to be sexual harassment targets. I theorize about the form this bias takes and test the argument with a national survey experiment run in five waves from October 2017 to February 2018, where participants were asked to propose employment outcomes for an employee with o…
Gender and Health
This study leverages multiple measures of gender from a US national online survey (N = 1,508) to better assess how gender is related to self-rated health. In contrast to research linking feminine behaviors with good health and masculine behaviors with poor health, we find that masculinity is associated with better self-rated health for cisgender men, whereas femininity is associated with better self-rated health for cisgender women. The patterns …
Leader Messaging and Attitudes toward Sexual Violence
Research exploring sexual assault within universities and sexual harassment within companies has largely overlooked how leadership in organizations can shape constituents' perceptions of sexual violence. This question has become particularly relevant as organizations are increasingly tasked with measuring and communicating about sexual violence. We use two national survey experiments to test how altering an organization's communication of informa…
Gender and Health
This study leverages multiple measures of gender from a US national online survey (N = 1,508) to better assess how gender is related to self-rated health. In contrast to research linking feminine behaviors with good health and masculine behaviors with poor health, we find that masculinity is associated with better self-rated health for cisgender men, whereas femininity is associated with better self-rated health for cisgender women. The patterns …
Trajectory Guarding
Sexual interactions often involve implicit, ambiguous behavior, yet research on unwanted sexual interactions in the workplace largely focuses on interactions that are explicitly sexual. Drawing on 84 interviews with tech industry workers, I show that unwanted, ambiguously sexual interactions are relatively commonplace in their workplaces. Ambiguously sexual interactions can take multiple interactional trajectories, but one possibility is that the…
Where's the Beef? How Masculinity Exacerbates Gender Disparities in Health Behaviors
Men in the United States have higher rates of life-threatening diseases than do women, in part due to behavioral differences in health practices. We argue that men's enactment of masculinity in their daily lives contributes to health behavior differences. We focus on meat consumption, a masculine-stereotyped dietary practice that epidemiological studies have linked to negative health outcomes. In study 1, nationally representative survey data ind…
The Penalties For Self-Reporting Sexual Harassment
Although sexual harassment in the workplace is illegal, it often goes unreported. This study employs causal evidence to evaluate one deterrent to reporting: bias against women known to be sexual harassment targets. I theorize about the form this bias takes and test the argument with a national survey experiment run in five waves from October 2017 to February 2018, where participants were asked to propose employment outcomes for an employee with o…
Leader Messaging and Attitudes toward Sexual Violence
Research exploring sexual assault within universities and sexual harassment within companies has largely overlooked how leadership in organizations can shape constituents' perceptions of sexual violence. This question has become particularly relevant as organizations are increasingly tasked with measuring and communicating about sexual violence. We use two national survey experiments to test how altering an organization's communication of informa…
Tensions of Making Women's Marginalization Salient in Men-Dominated Workplaces
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 men-dominated tech industry are complicated by the inscription of negative, gender essentialist stereotypes about women into narratives about why such in…
Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era
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 target of sexual harassment and deemed less credible when they fall short. Using data from a novel multifactorial surv…
Who Believes Gender Research? How Readers’ Gender Shapes the Evaluation of Gender Research
Prior research finds that relative to women, men are less receptive to scientific evidence of gender bias against women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, whereas the researcher’s gender does not influence evaluations of gender research. Do these effects hold for research documenting workplace gender inequalities more generally? In a preregistered survey experiment fielded on Prolific, survey participants were shown tweets from…
Leader Messaging and Attitudes toward Sexual Violence
Research exploring sexual assault within universities and sexual harassment within companies has largely overlooked how leadership in organizations can shape constituents' perceptions of sexual violence. This question has become particularly relevant as organizations are increasingly tasked with measuring and communicating about sexual violence. We use two national survey experiments to test how altering an organization's communication of informa…
Where's the Beef? How Masculinity Exacerbates Gender Disparities in Health Behaviors
Men in the United States have higher rates of life-threatening diseases than do women, in part due to behavioral differences in health practices. We argue that men's enactment of masculinity in their daily lives contributes to health behavior differences. We focus on meat consumption, a masculine-stereotyped dietary practice that epidemiological studies have linked to negative health outcomes. In study 1, nationally representative survey data ind…
The Penalties For Self-Reporting Sexual Harassment
Although sexual harassment in the workplace is illegal, it often goes unreported. This study employs causal evidence to evaluate one deterrent to reporting: bias against women known to be sexual harassment targets. I theorize about the form this bias takes and test the argument with a national survey experiment run in five waves from October 2017 to February 2018, where participants were asked to propose employment outcomes for an employee with o…
Gender and Health
This study leverages multiple measures of gender from a US national online survey (N = 1,508) to better assess how gender is related to self-rated health. In contrast to research linking feminine behaviors with good health and masculine behaviors with poor health, we find that masculinity is associated with better self-rated health for cisgender men, whereas femininity is associated with better self-rated health for cisgender women. The patterns …
Trajectory Guarding
Sexual interactions often involve implicit, ambiguous behavior, yet research on unwanted sexual interactions in the workplace largely focuses on interactions that are explicitly sexual. Drawing on 84 interviews with tech industry workers, I show that unwanted, ambiguously sexual interactions are relatively commonplace in their workplaces. Ambiguously sexual interactions can take multiple interactional trajectories, but one possibility is that the…
Sexual Harassment and Hierarchical Workplace Relationships after #MeToo
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 stereotyping and resultant career penalties. A woman employee who reported sexual harassment was seen as less warm and …
Who Believes Gender Research? How Readers’ Gender Shapes the Evaluation of Gender Research
Prior research finds that relative to women, men are less receptive to scientific evidence of gender bias against women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, whereas the researcher’s gender does not influence evaluations of gender research. Do these effects hold for research documenting workplace gender inequalities more generally? In a preregistered survey experiment fielded on Prolific, survey participants were shown tweets from…
Tensions of Making Women's Marginalization Salient in Men-Dominated Workplaces
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 men-dominated tech industry are complicated by the inscription of negative, gender essentialist stereotypes about women into narratives about why such in…
Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era
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 target of sexual harassment and deemed less credible when they fall short. Using data from a novel multifactorial surv…
Are Occupations Associated with Women Devalued? A Causal Test
Empirical evidence from the labor market suggests that when an occupation is associated with women it is devalued, but without tight experimental control, these studies cannot establish that the relationship is causal. In a series of preregistered survey experiments, I test whether U.S. residents devalue three distinct occupations when they are feminine-typed rather than masculine-typed. I independently vary two gendered dimensions of each occupa…
Reading the Room
Research identifies an organization’s climate toward sexual harassment as the strongest predictor of sexual harassment prevalence. Yet how employees come to perceive their organization’s climate toward sexual harassment has not been explored. Drawing on data from 35 interviews with restaurant workers in Madison, Wisconsin, we show that workers overwhelmingly draw from their experiences and interactions in the workplace, rather than written organi…
Normative Discrimination and the Gender Binary
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), participants rated a fictitious potential teammate whose name and pronouns were varied. Participants reported significantly less comfort working wi…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Harassment (7 works) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (7 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 works) · Perception (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works)