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DESCRIPTION:Julia Melin\n\nTuck School of Business\n\nWith a Little Help fr
 om My (Girl) Friends: Field Evidence on Gender Homophily and Women’s Train
 ing Outcomes in Remote Environments\n\nJulia L. Melin (Tuck School of Busi
 ness)\, Tiantian Yang (The Wharton School)\, and Sofoklis Goulas (Yale Uni
 versity\n\nDate: Friday October 10\, 2025\n	Time:10:30 AM -12:00 PM\n	Locati
 on: Virtual (ZOOM)\n\nAll are cordially invited to attend.\n\nAttend on ZO
 OM\n\n\nAbstract:\n\nHow does peer-group gender composition influence wome
 n’s professional development in remote environments? While research on net
 works highlights the benefits of cross-gender ties\, studies of educationa
 l and training contexts emphasize the socialization benefits of gender-hom
 ogeneous groups. We use remote training as a novel context to reconcile th
 ese perspectives and clarify the conditions under which same-gender peer g
 roups are most beneficial for women. We theorize that remote training envi
 ronments heighten barriers to interpersonal relationships and lack structu
 ral incentives for collaboration. As such\, all-women peer groups confer u
 nique benefits by fostering identity-based trust\, enabling mutual assista
 nce that facilitates career advancement. We test our prediction in an 18-m
 onth randomized field experiment on a leading online career training platf
 orm\, leveraging random assignment of over 2\,700 unemployed women to gend
 er-homophilous (all-women) or gender-heterophilous (mixed-gender) virtual 
 peer groups. Results show that women in gender-homophilous groups were sig
 nificantly more likely to complete their training on time and earn profess
 ional certification within a year of program initiation. Gender homophily 
 also significantly improved women’s likelihood of securing in-field employ
 ment following program completion and certification. Comparing men in mixe
 d-gender groups with higher versus lower male representation showed no imp
 rovements\, suggesting that the benefits of gender homophily may be specif
 ic to women. Supplemental qualitative analyses reveal that these advantage
 s unfold through a process characterized by all-women groups (1) disclosin
 g multiple shared identities\, (2) building affect-based trust\, and (3) e
 xchanging expressive and instrumental resources. This study provides the f
 irst causal evidence on how peer gender composition influences individual 
 career goal attainment in remote training and illuminates the micro-group 
 processes that drive these effects.\n
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SUMMARY:Organizational Behavior Area Virtual Research Seminar Series: Julia
  Melin
URL:/desautels/channels/event/organizational-behavior-
 area-virtual-research-seminar-series-julia-melin-368170
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