Such gender-specific incentive sensitization phenomenon may reflect an evolutionary-derived need for diversion of limited resources to the nurturance of healthy offspring.
The present data extend our prior findings of increased effort to rating ratio exhibited by men with regard to attractive female faces, which we referred to as a gender-specific incentive sensitization [1].
Gender-selection incentives become stronger as a family approaches its own size limit.
To be fair, the World Economic Forum has been trying to close that gender gap with incentives for companies and other powerful institutions to send more women.
In a media environment that reliably rewards trading on one's gender identity, the financial incentive for young female writers to approach the world with a narrow set of politicized questions — the answers to which they already know — is great.
Abrevaya (2009) emphasizes that the incentives for gender selection depend not only on gender preferences but also on preferences for family size.
More generally, the incentives for gender selection increase as the desired family size is reached (Retherford and Roy 2003) and the opportunity cost of having a child of the less-preferred gender increases.
Gender-equality guidelines instituted at the German Research Foundation that require transparency on gender equality and use incentives to get there have worked by supporting flexible working schedules, child care facilities and unbiased hiring procedures, Mühlenbruch and Jochimsen write in Nature.
With regard to attitudes towards different models of incentives, multiple gender differences can be observed.
Where the surrounding architecture of United Nations system reform was relatively mature, such as in Delivering as One contexts, joint gender programmes benefited from incentives and supportive external frameworks for coordination.
