Elizabeth Weingarten is the head of behavioral science insights at Torch and a senior advisor at Behavioral Scientist. Previously, she worked at the behavioral science design firm ideas42, directed the Global Gender Parity Initiative at the think tank New America, and was the managing editor of Behavioral Scientist. She also worked on the editorial staffs of Slate, The Atlantic, and Qatar Today Magazine. She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
A new book explores why corporate diversity trainings have endured despite the evidence they aren’t effective, and what does work to make progress on diversity, equity, and inclusion inside organizations.
In a new book, economist Claudia Goldin finds that the gender wage gap is a symptom of a far greater problem, one that has largely been invisible.
A conversation with Katy Milkman on what her new book can teach us about how to change our behaviors once and for all.
A conversation with the authors of “Minds Wide Shut” about how to avoid a destructive, and pervasive, mode of thinking that affects all of us.
As the election approaches, it’s essential, and easy, to address this behavioral blind spot.
A writer and psychologist’s take on what poker can teach us all about human nature.
The co-founders of an organization to get more Black women into economics explain how we all lose without their perspectives.
This moment could be a portal into a world where caregiving responsibilities are divided more equally between partners, where we value care work for what it actually is—the backbone of our entire economy.
Does assessing question-asking behavior give us valuable data about women’s empowerment and gender equality? Or does it simply give us one piece of data from a much larger pie?
The stories we tell about sexual assault—the lone, serial predator—oversimplifies the truth and obscures the solution. Betsy Levy Paluck is one of the researchers trying to tell a more accurate story.