What Works: Gender Equality by Design - Softcover

Bohnet, Iris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674986563 ISBN 13: 9780674986565

Publisher: Belknap Press, 2018

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Best Business Book of the Year, 800-CEO-READ Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people's minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts. Presenting research-based solutions, Iris Bohnet hands us the tools we need to move the needle in classrooms and boardrooms, in hiring and promotion, benefiting businesses, governments, and the lives of millions. "Bohnet assembles an impressive assortment of studies that demonstrate how organizations can achieve gender equity in practice...What Works is stuffed with good ideas, many equally simple to implement." -Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal "A practical guide for any employer seeking to offset the unconscious bias holding back women in organizations, from orchestras to internet companies." -Andrew Hill, Financial Times

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Review

If you really want equality, here is a guide to action. No more excuses; we know how to design. Bohnet is brilliant and practical, and she documents what works. Everyone who read Thinking, Fast and Slow and Nudge and cares about equality will want to consume this masterpiece.--Max Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

Iris Bohnet's groundbreaking work will revolutionize the way governments and corporations approach gender equality in the workplace. Extraordinary.--Mirjam Staub-Bisang, CEO, Independent Capital Group, and author of Sustainable Investing for Institutional Investors

If you want to solve gender inequality, read What Works. Then follow the compelling, insightful suggestions Iris Bohnet provides. This is a book you will return to again and again, for this is a book that changes everything.--Urs Rohner, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Credit Suisse

Bohnet is the world's leading expert at the intersection of behavioral science and gender equality. Her work moves effortlessly between laboratory studies and real world examples, and spells out the practical implications. Achieve equity; enhance profit; and beat your rivals--and be gripped along the way.--David Halpern, author of Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference

True to its title, Iris Bohnet's timely book marshals evidence from proven research to designing interventions that actually work. A must-read for anyone trying to move the needle on gender diversity.--Herminia Ibarra, Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning, INSEAD

This book is easy to follow with helpful summaries and an inspiring finish. I would highly recommend that anyone who manages people gives it a go. It is stuffed with experiments and data drawn from all over the world...This is a must-have guide for anyone in charge of a diversity budget.--Julie Chappell "Management Today "

To blindly assume that sexism is a thing of the past is to fly in the face of the wealth of modern-day experimental evidence presented in this fascinating book... From the boardroom to the classroom, this book outlines a set of tools that we need to design organizations in a way that sets us free from unconscious gender bias... Bohnet's book is a call to action--and it is one that organizations cannot afford to ignore.--Victoria Bateman "Times Higher Education "

A handy manual about promoting gender in the workplace, which is up front about what works, and what doesn't.--Rebecca Smith "Management Today "

A practical guide for any employer seeking to offset the unconscious bias holding back
women in organizations, from orchestras to internet companies.

--Andrew Hill "Financial Times "

A game changer. In this brilliant and practical book, Bohnet explains how behavioral insights can collapse gender inequality in our lifetime. It's terrific.--Linda Babcock, James M. Walton Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University and coauthor of Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide

About the Author

Iris Bohnet is a behavioral economist and the academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School. She combines insights from economics and psychology to improve decision-making in organizations and society. Her most recent research examines how behavioral design can be used to de-bias how we live, learn and work. She is co-director of the Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy Program, and the faculty chair of the "Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century" for the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders.

Edition details

• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0674986563
• ISBN 13: 9780674986565
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400