Video Series: 3-Minute Research Insights
The Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) gives you access to thought leadership advancing women and gender equity.
These short videos are inspired by a WAPPP seminar series, “Promoting Gender Equity at Work.” Each video page links to additional resources to learn more. A new video will be featured each week.
Featured Video of the Week
Why do organizational policies and procedures fail to improve diversity outcomes?
The purpose of diversity initiatives is to help groups that face disadvantage in society achieve better outcomes in organizations, but they often do not work as intended. In this video, Lisa Leslie, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at New York University, examines four unintended consequence types—backfire, negative spillover, positive spillover, and false progress—and the underlying mechanisms and processes that produce them.
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3 Things You Should Know About Workplace Gender Bias
How should organizations approach the task of eliminating bias from the work environment?
3 Things You Should Know About Low Birth Rates and Gender Inequality
How do workplace norms affect fertility decisions?
3 Things You Should Know About the Gender Pay Gap
What does the evidence-based research suggest to explain the gender pay gap?
3 Things You Should Know About Global Colorism
How does this form of discrimination influence perceptions of individual and group identity?
3 Things You Should Know About Non-Binary Gender and Public Policy
How can workplace policies be more inclusive of non-binary individuals?
3 Things You Should Know About the ERA
The Equal Rights Amendment was first written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman and introduced to the U.S. Congress in 1923.