How leaders’ beliefs about inequality affect organizational diversity
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.
Debates and controversies in understanding gender, race and entrepreneurship
We know funding is one of the biggest challenges entrepreneurs face, but how is it different for women starting their own businesses?
Early Childhood Education and Care – Transition Briefing
This policy brief, co-written by Sarah Kaplan, offers a new strategy to expand high-quality and affordable early childhood education and care in Ontario.
How might standardizing organizational processes reduce racial inequality?
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.
Why changing gendered behaviour does not equate to gender equality
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.
Why professional women may enact intentional invisibility
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.