{
  "id": 12164633,
  "title": "Male managers start hiring more women after their first daughter is born, study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/male-managers-start-hiring-more-women-after-their-first-daughter-is",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-05T14:00:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PsyPost",
    "slug": "psypost",
    "url": "https://www.psypost.org/male-managers-start-hiring-more-women-after-their-first-daughter-is-born-study-finds/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Research indicates that male managers hiring more women occurs after the birth of their first daughter, according to a study accepted for publication in The Review of Economic Studies. This shift occurred almost immediately following the birth and did not impact the company's overall performance. The researchers, led by Maddalena Ronchi from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Nina Smith of Aarhus University, aimed to understand whether the \"daughter effect\" – the concept that fathering a daughter makes men more sensitive to gender equality – translates into tangible professional actions.\n\nThe study utilized Danish administrative registry data from 1992 to 2017, focusing on single-manager establishments, which made up more than 90 percent of Danish firms. The researchers analyzed 6,701 periods where a male manager experienced the birth of a child within the same company. They tracked two outcomes: the proportion of female employees and the gender earnings gap, scoring it so that 0.5 signifies equal earnings between men and women.\n\nWomen made up an average of 34 percent of employees, and the earnings measure averaged 0.39 across the companies studied. After a manager's first daughter was born, the earnings measure increased by 0.017, a 4.4 percent rise, and the share of female employees rose by about 1 percentage point, a 2.9 percent increase. These changes were more pronounced for managers having their first daughter rather than additional daughters. Furthermore, the effect was not observed with the birth of a son, suggesting that the impact is specifically related to the arrival of daughters.",
  "summary": "Male managers who have a first daughter tend to hire more women and raise female employees' share of earnings, according to new research. The shift happens almost immediately and has no detectable impact on company performance.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}