2-page summaries for practitioners of cutting-edge research articles published recently in academic journals
This study examines two selection tools to show how some standardized processes for eliminating bias (e.g. blind hiring) may not have the intended effects.
This study examines how a program in the Democratic Republic of Congo challenged gender norms by helping men change their individual gendered behaviours. Despite these changes, men still adhered to gender hierarchy, suggesting that gender equality requires more systemic transformation.
Gender bias and discrimination often prevent women from advancement throughout their careers. This study looks at how professional women enact a strategy of “intentional invisibility” to achieve their career goals when encountering structural gender inequality.
This brief examines five experimental studies which dispel the notion that women can reduce gender inequality in the workplace by simply “leaning in” and overcoming internal barriers like lack of confidence.
This brief highlights a study which tested whether parents’ behaviours, as well as their implicit beliefs about gender, also impact children’s aspirations and beliefs.
This brief examines how hiring managers' exposure to violent crime events affects their decisions to hire Black job applicants with and without a criminal record.
This study looks at how LGBT employees encounter inequality in their day-to-day workplace experiences from an intersectional lens. It suggests that organizations need to do more than implement LGBT-inclusive policies.
Drawing on ethnographic research with low income working women from rural India, this brief examines how women's paid work outside the home is often contingent on the availability of household members' willingness to help free up women’s time by taking up some of their domestic responsibilities
A look at how gender norms have influenced men's ranking compared to women, in masculinized tech workplaces.
Although Black and white job seekers use their social networks to find jobs at similar rates, Black job seekers are less likely to receive a job offer through their networks. This study looks at why the networks of Black job seekers may be less effective in producing jobs.
