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Greater visibility of women researchers may reduce gender gaps in self-efficacy beliefs, while influencing men graduate students’ perceptions of academic careers, per study of almost 400 participants

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When Matilda shows up: The double-edged impact of women researchers’ media visibility in management science

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Stimuli (on the left: the men-dominated research newsletter/ on the right: the women-dominated research newsletter).

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Credit: Parguel et al., 2026, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Greater visibility of women researchers may reduce gender gaps in self-efficacy beliefs, while influencing men graduate students’ perceptions of academic careers, per study of almost 400 participants

Article URL: https://plos.io/4wBAuVq

Article title: When Matilda shows up: The double-edged impact of women researchers’ media visibility in management science.

Author countries: France, Canada.

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.

Journal

PLOS One

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0348097

Article Title

When Matilda shows up: The double-edged impact of women researchers’ media visibility in management science

Article Publication Date

27-May-2026

COI Statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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