2-page summaries for practitioners of cutting-edge research articles published recently in academic journals
Top managers may have trouble keeping the support of managers who helped them as they moved up the corporate ladder. This study shows that these challenges are especially salient for women and racial minority executives.
This study examines how international trade impacts men and women’s employment security differently.
This study explores how migrant African care workers face “everyday racism” masked as care receivers’ personal preferences.
This study shows how women workers deal with unwanted, ambiguous sexual interactions through protective behaviours that may limit their career advancement.
This study suggests that traditional bureaucratic work practices can in fact provide more flexible work design compared to the post-bureaucratic practices that are meant to be empowering for workers.
This study suggests that changing competitions (e.g., promotions) from an opt-in process to an opt-out process can eliminate gender gaps in the decision to compete.
This study examines how working fathers overcome barriers to work-family balance using three different strategies.
Incorporating design thinking and empathy-based approaches in STEM learning increases girls’ interest in pursuing STEM careers.
This study finds that how people are exposed to ideas about discrimination affects whether they use stereotypes in hiring, in turn shaping labour markets.
How do top executives believe gender inequality can be solved? This brief highlights a year-long case study in Silicon Valley, offering key insights on how executives’ views impact their organization’s diversity initiatives.
