Prof Michelle Ryan

The Mistake We Always Make When Talking About Women, By A Psychologist Why are debates about women’s rights so hard to resolve? New research shows how morality, not policy, shapes the fight over women’s bodies.

Nice coverage of our recent work on harm-based moral arguments about women's bodily autonomy! @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/traver...

While gender equality initiatives have historically been spearheaded by women, male allies' contribution is increasingly recognized—and challenged. Our article examines the pivotal yet neglected intersection of women's leadership and allyship for gender equality. Across two experiments with community samples (total N = 801), we investigate how message framing (common cause vs. women's issue; Experiment 1), intergroup/male versus intragroup/female allies (Experiments 1–2), and transformative versus tokenistic allyship (Experiment 2) affect female leaders' capacity to mobilize both men and women for gender equality. We demonstrate that common cause (vs. women's issue) messages more readily mobilize men for collective action, whereas women's mobilization remains high irrespective of message framing. We also show that a female leader supported by an intergroup/male rather than an intragroup/female ally is more likely to be seen as “one of us,” have greater influence, and be more effective at mobilizing both men and women for collective action (Experiments 1–2). Critically, men are mobilized by transformative allyship (regardless of ally gender) and disengage from both the leader and the cause in response to tokenistic allyship (Experiment 2). While male allies can be important, our results suggest that transformative allyship is essential for mobilization across gender boundaries.

Should 'sisters' be doing it by themselves when it comes to gender equality initiatives? Not really, no!

"It [also] matters whether the approach is arguing for a 'we-change' or a 'she-change'.”

Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

BSky author: @shellkryan.bsky.social

Black women are perfect victims for the glass cliff phenomenon The racism Diane Abbott is experiencing is not isolated

An article in Marie Claire about the intersectional glass cliff
www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/opinion...

A thigh tattoo of the woman symbol in purple and black in a brushstroke style.

Happy International Women’s Day from my new(ish) tattoo

Why are women still being cast off the glass cliff? Female workers are deemed more likely to rise to the top when the job is risky and less appealing to men

The Glass Cliff in the FT
www.ft.com/content/eba7...

If you’re going to #SPSP2024 and you’re free on Saturday from 1-5pm, come join us to do some group peer reviews of preprints and get a $120 gift card and some timtams (if you don’t know what timtams are, that’s a good enough reason to come!)
Please repost!

Back 18 months later. You can really see how fast he’s growing up!

Honestly, I can not get enough of these Japanese cheesecakes. Worth the trip to Sydney just for one of these. Canberra, you need to up your game!

Exploring the Role of Social Identity in the Glass Cliff Phenomenon: A Gender Projection Model: http://osf.io/3eacr/

Beautiful! You’re going to have fun with that!

Opinion | Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me The demagogues won’t stop with Harvard.

www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/o...

This is amazing. What a find!

Movie poster for Poor Things. Emma Aston’s close up with brightly smeared makeup

Well, this was completely whacky, and marvellous, and Emma Stone should definitely win an Oscar.

Our new paper in @Nature evaluates the accuracy of social and behavioral policy recommendations during COVID19 (from www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

We reviewed 747 papers (mean N = 16,848) and found evidence for 89% of our central claims: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Led by @ruggeri.bsky.social

A little free library adorned with Xmas decorations

Merry Xmas from the Little Free Library around the corner from my parent’s house on the Mornington Peninsula

I don’t think I could resist!

Oh my goodness. Yes please!

This is wonderful!

We’re on the Peninsula for Xmas. He’s actually have more fun that he is letting on 😂

What a great collection of books!

This is exactly what I did yesterday - laundry and repotted my plants. It was wonderful.

Love Songs xkcd.com/2870

Deadlines met. Office plants watered. Computer unplugged. I’m officially on leave. Woo hoo!

Still frame from gif of a child face down asleep as she gets dragged by a carousel

I’ve just got to get through 2 more days. That’s doable, right?

This is *chefs kiss*

[KH Explains] Will Kakao's first female CEO survive 'glass cliff'? While the South Korean IT industry has historically been dominated by male leadership, leading internet giants Naver and Kakao are seeing a new wave of young female leaders taking the helm and steerin...

A glass cliff in Korea?

A team of women standing in front of a banner

It was fabulous to spend a couple of days with the fabulous team at Advancing Women in Healthcare Leadership. So energising!

Behavioral science policy recommendations early in the pandemic were *largely correct*. Our global collaboration of 80+ experts covers 747 studies (average sample size over 16,000!) & supports 16 of 19 claims. Many lessons for science & policy.

Out today in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

we thank the reviewers for their helpful suggestions which have greatly improved the paper

Boooo! We need to do this intersectionally and join it all up!