Research briefs, news, and event recaps related to bias and stereotypes.
The Brief: Does diversity training work?
This video explainer is based on an Oxford-style debate on the effectiveness of diversity training hosted by GATE in 2017.
The cultural underpinnings of sex segregation
Researchers use diary entries and interviews to show how college students’ socialization into the field of engineering leads women to believe that they are a “bad fit."
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.
Indigenous Women and the Economy: Successes and challenges
Carol Anne Hilton and Devon Fiddler shared their successes and challenges in navigating the economy as Indigenous women, and their views on where we might go from here. | April 19
How occupations become gendered: A look at microfinance
This study provides evidence that the gender of the initial person filling a gender-neutral role, has lasting consequences for how that role is subsequently perceived.
VIEW to the U: Sonia Kang on Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Sonia Kang speaks with "VIEW to the U" about her research that touches on several areas, including managing multiple identities, résumé whitening, the psychological foundations of discrimination, and more.
The benefits of raising daughters: Increasing gender diversity in venture capital
The subtle elimination of bias in hiring decisions (in this case, via lifelong exposure to gender diversity through raising daughters) is both good for its own sake, and for firm performance.
Promoting women to management may reinforce bias in male-dominated occupations
In male-dominated fields, such as engineering, where women experience rapid mobility into managerial roles, this study suggests that an inverted role hierarchy may disadvantage such women.
Buy The Damn Card Yourself, And 6 More Ways Men Can Support Women At Work
GATE's Sonia Kang talks to Chatelaine about how men can support women at work by speaking up for them.
A budget nudge isn’t likely to be enough to close the gender gap
The Globe and Mail's Campbell Clark quotes Sarah Kaplan in this piece discussing the impact of motherhood on the gender wage gap.