2-page summaries for practitioners of cutting-edge research articles published recently in academic journals
This study shows how women workers deal with unwanted, ambiguous sexual interactions through protective behaviours that may limit their career advancement.
This study suggests that traditional bureaucratic work practices can in fact provide more flexible work design compared to the post-bureaucratic practices that are meant to be empowering for workers.
This study suggests that changing competitions (e.g., promotions) from an opt-in process to an opt-out process can eliminate gender gaps in the decision to compete.
This study examines how working fathers overcome barriers to work-family balance using three different strategies.
Incorporating design thinking and empathy-based approaches in STEM learning increases girls’ interest in pursuing STEM careers.
This study finds that how people are exposed to ideas about discrimination affects whether they use stereotypes in hiring, in turn shaping labour markets.
How do top executives believe gender inequality can be solved? This brief highlights a year-long case study in Silicon Valley, offering key insights on how executives’ views impact their organization’s diversity initiatives.
This study examines two selection tools to show how some standardized processes for eliminating bias (e.g. blind hiring) may not have the intended effects.
This study examines how a program in the Democratic Republic of Congo challenged gender norms by helping men change their individual gendered behaviours. Despite these changes, men still adhered to gender hierarchy, suggesting that gender equality requires more systemic transformation.
Gender bias and discrimination often prevent women from advancement throughout their careers. This study looks at how professional women enact a strategy of “intentional invisibility” to achieve their career goals when encountering structural gender inequality.
