Research briefs, news, and event recaps related to meritocracy.
GATE Director Sarah Kaplan joins the 'Level the Playing Field' podcast to speak about gender’s role in today’s labour market, and whether we are moving to a meritocracy.
Rotman Management Magazine
Sarah Kaplan and Sonia Kang explore five myths that are still leading to discrimination against women in medicine — and across industries.
Watch Sarah Kaplan speak at the U of T In Your Neighbourhood series, as she discusses why our systems of education, recruiting, and promotion are often unmeritocratic and how we can fix this.
In this study, evidence suggests that engineering education socializes women engineers into reproducing its norms and values, which upholds gender inequality in the profession.
In this Maclean's video, Sarah Kaplan and Hadiya Roderique discuss how to fix the gender pay gap alongside Rona Ambrose, Diana Matheson, Kirstine Stewart, Rudayna Bahubeshi and Jodi Kovitz.
Sarah Kaplan speaks with Maclean's magazine about the "choice" argument for the gender wage gap and the myth of meritocracy.
View this 1-hour webcast of Sarah Kaplan's presentation on meritocracy and the ways it can produce biased outcomes. It was given as part of the medical school's City-Wide Grand Rounds.
Women of Influence
Sarah Kaplan and Alyson Colón write about the backlash on gender diversity, and how we can move forward by treating diversity as an innovation challenge.
Rotman Management Magazine
Our frames of reference and procedures contain implicit biases that devalue women’s contributions and reinforce the privileges of dominant groups. Here’s what to do about it.
GATE-funded researcher Hadiya Roderique talks about race and fit on Bay Street in the Globe and Mail
