Who Asks Questions, And What It Tells Us
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?
June 19th, 2019
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April 09th, 2019
How Better Urban Planning Can Improve Gender Equality
In the mid-1990s, public officials in Vienna found something surprising when they studied who was using their public parks.
March 12th, 2019
Venture Capitalists Are Using the Wrong Tools to Improve Gender Diversity
It is time for venture capitalists to stop trying to change hearts and minds and start redesigning their firms.
November 20th, 2018
A Fresh Approach to Understanding Sexual Assault: A Conversation with Betsy Levy Paluck
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.
July 18th, 2018
What Happens When We Give Everything a Gender
Is your wineglass feminine or masculine? That question sparked research on whether we stereotype or not.
June 26th, 2018
How Performance Evaluations Hurt Gender Equality
Performance evaluations are designed to be meritocratic. Unfortunately, they can exacerbate the very gender inequities they are striving to reduce.
May 31st, 2018
What We Learned By Failing to Make Work Better for Female Staff
Trainings to remove bias are mostly ineffective, and can even backfire. What, then, is the way forward?
December 04th, 2017
Do You See What I See? The Importance of Men as Allies
Men are more effective at combating sexism, and they and incur fewer costs for it than women. Why don’t they speak up?
August 28th, 2017
“Work-Life Balance” and “Empathizing” Do Not Explain Women’s Career Choices
A viral letter by former Google employee James Damore renewed the conversation about diversity in Silicon Valley.
May 03rd, 2016
How Can Organizations Promote Gender Equality? Iris Bohnet on ‘What Works’
Today, women comprise only 25 percent of the STEM workforce, 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs, and earn 79 cents for every dollar paid to men, amounting to an average income difference of $10,762 per year. The numbers tell the story—gender inequality is still a pervasive problem in the U.S.
