Having a child can abruptly shift the way you view the world. That may be especially true when it comes to men who are raising girls: According to new research, fathers who are in manager roles behave differently towards women at work after having daughters.

The new study, which was recently published in The Review of Economic Studies, used Danish administrative data to match employer records with information about managers’ families. The research focused on workplaces with just one person in a managerial position in a given year; the manager would therefore be the most likely to be in charge of decisions like hiring and promotion. 

The study, which explored the birth of a first daughter “as a plausibly exogenous shock to male managers’ gender attitudes,” found that if male managers had a daughter, they were more likely to hire women. 

That was especially true for women who met three criteria: they had higher levels of education, were full-time employed, and earned a high salary at the company. Overall, male managers hired women 2.9% more following the birth of a first daughter. 

The hiring change wasn’t the only noticeable difference in how male managers worked with women, either: The study found evidence that suggested promotions also shifted in favor of women. 

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