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.)
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.)
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.)
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.
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.
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.Rotman Management Magazine
Sonia Kang, Katherine DeCelles, Andràs Tilcsik, and Sora Jun show that even companies that publicly espouse an inclusive environment continue to discriminate against candidates who appear to be from non-white backgrounds. Worse yet, many non-white job candidates are proactively ‘whitening’ their resumes in order to hide their racial identity.
Rotman Management Magazine
An individual's social class of origin continues to play an enduring role in shaping life and economic trajectories.
Rotman Management Magazine
Two Rotman School of Management professors talk about how to engage men in the fight for gender equality.
Sarah Kaplan's chapter in the 2017 book, Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business, covers the challenge of gender diversity in organizations.
(New! We collaborated with Rotman Magazine on a special issue on Inequality, out this Fall!)