Using Design Thinking to address gender issues
Rotman Management Magazine
Karen Christensen interviews Vanessa Serra Iarocci to discuss Iarocci's experience utilizing design thinking principles to solve the gender gap in business.
Gender Equality in the Workplace: How Men Can Move the Needle
Rotman Management Magazine
Sarah Kaplan interviews Kevin Lobo and Richard Nesbitt about their experiences supporting gender equality; including tools and tactics they've utilized.
Reconsidering Gender Diversity in Economic Development
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Rachael Goodman & Sarah Kaplan discuss how gender-diverse people face different kinds of economic inclusion and exclusion than other marginalized groups. (Part 5 in a 5-part series with SSIR).
When Care Work and Paid Work Collide
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Rachael Goodman & Sarah Kaplan discuss how extended families can actually enable women to take on paying jobs outside the home (Part 4 in a 5-part series with SSIR).
Beyond Policy: How Gendered Interactions on the Ground Shape Development
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Laura Doering & Sarah Kaplan argue that the actual impacts of development policies aimed at improving women's lives happen in day-to-day interactions (Part 3 of a 5-part series with SSIR)
Facing down backlash: What would it take to make real progress on gender equality?
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.
The Mantra of Meritocracy
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Sarah Kaplan and GATE post doc Rachael Goodman write about how the mantra of meritocracy is being exported around the world. (Part 2 of a 5-part series with SSIR.)
Holding up half the sky
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Sarah Kaplan and GATE post doc Rachael Goodman write about improving the effectiveness of women's empowerment programs by involving men. (Part 1 of a 5-part series with SSIR.)
Because it’s 2017: Gender Equality as an Innovation Challenge
Rotman Management Magazine
Sarah Kaplan argues that instead of focusing on building a ‘business case’ for gender equality, we need to re-frame it as an innovation challenge.
The Unintended Consequences of Diversity Statements
Harvard Business Review
Advertising oneself as a diversity-friendly employer does not solve the problem of discrimination. Pro-diversity statements give you a more diverse applicant pool, but it takes more to make workplaces inclusive.