Gender Analytics Online Program: Gender equity through inclusive design

On November 9th we are launching our new 5 course specialization on Coursera to introduce you to intersectional gender-based analytics.

What is Gender Analytics?

Gender Analytics is a way to analyze your products, services, processes and policies with a gender lens to uncover hidden opportunities for innovation and improved effectiveness.

You will discover the ways that gender identity, indigeneity, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and other intersections shape risks, opportunities and impacts of many of your organization’s activities, operations and outcomes.

“Most organizations don’t appreciate the hidden ways that gender can shape outcomes. We are introducing Gender Analytics to provide executives, managers and analysts with core competencies in uncovering risks and opportunities that can lead to innovative product, service, process and policy design.”

Sarah Kaplan, Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy

Who should take this course?

Business managers and leaders interested in using intersectional gender insights to innovate and improve performance
Government and NGO professionals who want to incorporate gender-based analysis and gender budgeting in their work
Gender and women’s studies experts who are seeking job-related applications for their skills
Business analytics experts looking to extend their skills to questions of equity
Human resource professionals, or Diversity and Inclusion leads such as Chief Diversity Officers, looking to be more effective partners to support business innovation and growth.

Benefits of Gender Analytics

Competency in Gender Analytics will enable you to:

Demystify key concepts related to gender and intersectionality
Gather qualitative and quantitative data using ethical practices
Use human-centred design and empathy to interpret insights
Exploit rapid prototyping to design products, services, processes or policies with beneficiaries or target audiences
Assess the impact of inclusive design solutions
Align your organization to execute Gender Analytics effectively

Beyond Diversity and Inclusion

Gender Analytics takes us beyond typical diversity and inclusion conversations to consider how gender impacts all aspects of an organization’s activities, including HR, risk, marketing, operations, product/service design, policy, and strategy.

Inclusive design principles

The Gender Analytics methodology will help you:

Identify and remove personal and organizational biases and data gaps
Leverage the diversity of your teams
Engage beneficiaries, users and other stakeholders meaningfully

Hands-On Learning

Unlike typical professional learning courses, Gender Analytics will provide you with hands-on experience through exercises, a mini boot camp and a capstone project.

Tangible outputs

Project workplan: The course contains a guided process for creating your own Gender Analytics workplan for a project that you define.

Self development plan: Based on our proprietary competency matrix, you will create your own development plan to increase your Gender Analytics skills over time.

Acknowledgements: The Gender Analytics specialization was developed by the Institute for Gender and the Economy at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management with support from CIBC, Catalyst, Inc., PwC, and Women and Gender Equality Canada.

For more information on the courses and modules, see our draft outline here.