The Best Articles in Equity & Inclusion

Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.

MIT grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial analysis software when she noticed a problem: the software didn't detect her face -- because the people who coded the algorithm hadn't taught it…

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With tart humor, Hayley Yeates makes the case that investing in cultural diversity is just as important as fostering gender diversity.

Kaitlyn Knopp, founder & CEO of Pequity, shares tactical compensation advice for every startup stage — from initial leveling and comp philosophy, to negotiating offers, extending exercise windows, and…

Misguided assumptions about race are going mainstream, but hard facts can help you combat entrenched attitudes

June 16, 2019Before you start reading this blog post, please know that this is for folks who care about diversity and inclusion because it is the right thing to do. If you don't believe that…

Being pregnant and Black is hard when you live in a rural community. Options are few, and racism makes everything worse.

These states have guaranteed income programs supporting Black women. Here's how they can affect you.

As the emirate’s ruler espoused gender equality, four royal women staked their lives on escaping his control.

A new book explains how devaluing emotional labor—disproportionately done by women and other disadvantaged groups—perpetuates inequality.

The authors, executive coaches for women leaders, wanted to understand why some women are able to sustain and maintain career momentum, despite the systemic, structural problems women — and especially…

Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.

Compact Magazine, a radical American journal

When women fail to achieve career goals, leaders are prone to attribute it to a lack of self-confidence. And when women demonstrate high levels of confidence through behaviors, such as being…

«confidence is a highly gendered word aimed at and adopted by both women and men to explain away the slower progression of women at work.»

“Men don’t need ambition. They have privilege. They rise unless they work hard at sucking.”

The US’s history of racism is fertile ground for fascism. Attacks on the courts, education, voting rights and women’s rights are steps to toppling democracy

«Though fascism involves disregard for human life, not all fascists are genocidal. Even Nazi Germany turned to genocide only relatively late in the regime’s rule.»

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Racial categories are crude maps imposed on human biological variation. How do scientists square them with genetics?

«It’s the cultural meanings that we attach to that variation that will create the different racial categories.” Those categories, she added, are fluid.»

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem…