Dr. Joyce He is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Dr. He received her PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and her Honours Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on understanding mechanisms for the continued persistence of gender inequality in labor markets, and what organizations can do to disrupt them.

For her dissertation, Dr. He departed from approaches that aim to “fix the women” or “fix biases in the mind” and focused instead on structural changes rooted in organizational design to reduce inequality. Her findings demonstrated that changing promotion schemes from an opt-in choice frame (requiring self-nomination) to an opt-out choice frame (applicants are automatically considered) attenuates the gender gap in application rates by increasing women’s participation, suggesting the effectiveness of “opt-out” promotions in closing the gender promotion gap.

Dr. He’s research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Academy of Management Journal, Nature Human Behavior, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. Her work has also been featured in Scientific American and Harvard Business Review.