Studies about negative effect of foregrounding a woman's sex? (re pronouns)

[BlueBrush]

I'm hoping someone might be able to point me towards a study on this?

There are lots of discussions on here about the pressure to include pronouns in email signatures. There's an argument that, if a woman foregrounds her sex in this way, she is laying herself open to being discriminated against (e.g. not being taken as seriously as a man would). The counter-argument is "but it's pretty obvious from your name / appearance that you're a woman, so does it really matter?". But I'm pretty sure on one of these threads I've seen someone mention a study that found women did worse at a task when they themselves were reminded of their sex beforehand, and even when they were told that women typically did better at the task. This would suggest that a woman would disadvantage herself by including pronouns.

Does anyone know of any studies along these lines they could point me to?

Googling 'stereotype threat' + sex, women or gender brings up quite a few.

I bookmarked this on an earlier thread:

hbr.org/2017/10/a-study-used-sensors-to-show-that-men-and-women-are-treated-differently-at-work

'Delusions of Gender' has referenced examples of the sort of thing you're referring to.

how about we work on those perceptions, rather than accept them as God given, or encoded on our second X chromosome? Surely, that women unestimate their own skills is part of their life long indoctrination and an inevitable reaction to hearing their pronouns?

I was looking for this too for the same reason. Here were a few I found:

www.reuters.com/article/us-maths-girls-idUSN2242207920070524

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103198913737

Then meanwhile these say similar things - that basically when less emphasis is placed on the femaleness of women in the workplace/the focus is on genderblind workplaces, women are more confident/more highly regarded by peers. Interesting stuff!

www.psychologicalscience.org/news/minds-business/gender-blind-thinking-workplace-confidence-gap.html

hbr.org/2018/07/women-benefit-when-they-downplay-gender

hbr.org/2020/03/research-to-reduce-gender-bias-anonymize-job-applications

www.researchgate.net/publication/318863273_What_blindness_to_gender_differences_helps_women_see_and_do_Implications_for_confidence_agency_and_action_in_male-dominated_environments

It would be useful to have an impact study on the use of stating pronouns at work. My gut feeling is that it may not (as suggested) make all trans people feel more accepted at work and I would expect it to have a detrimental effect on women. I'm all for making workplaces inclusive but I don't think anyone knows if this actually achieves this?

No no no. Stereotype threat didn't replicate! Sometimes these early studies can be misleading.

Here's an explanation.
replicationindex.com/2017/04/07/hidden-figures-replication-failures-in-the-stereotype-threat-literature/

Thanks everyone. I'll work through your suggestions and will dutifully report back if I reach some kind of coherent position worth sharing!

There was a good blog on this on legalfeminist.org.uk