Organizing for the US Equal Rights Amendment: Strategic Strengths and Failures
Organizing for the Equal Rights Amendment the first time round, in 1972-82, tapped the strengths and experienced the weaknesses of social movements ...
Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series
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A weekly seminar during the academic year focused on understanding and closing gender gaps in the areas of economic opportunity, political participation, health, and education.
Shifting Policy, Workplace Norms and Culture to End Workplace Sexual Violence
Millions of people disclosed sexual harassment and violence against them following the #MeToo breakthrough in October 2017. Despite the fact that advo...
HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series: LGBT Ex-Combatants in Colombia
Join us for an HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series event featuring Theresia Thylin, PhD Candidate in the Essex University (UK) Department of Sociol...
Do Sexual Harassment Programs Make Workplaces More Hospitable to Women?
Do corporate sexual harassment programs reduce harassment? If they do, new programs should boost the share of women in management because harassment ...
Unintended Consequences of Diversity Initiatives: Types, Causes, and Interventions
The purpose of diversity initiatives is to help groups that face disadvantage in society (e.g., women, racial/ethnic minorities, etc.) achieve better ...
Babies, Work, or Both? Highly-Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia with Mary Brinton
Only two OECD countries continue to exhibit an M-shaped curve of female labor force participation across the life cycle: Japan and South Korea. In thi...
What Works: Designing an Inclusive Workplace with Iris Bohnet
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...
They, Them, and Theirs: Including Nonbinary Gender Identities in Law and Policy with Jessica Clarke
Nonbinary gender identities have quickly gone from obscurity to prominence in American public life, with growing acceptance of gender-neutral pronouns...
HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series -- Transgender Military Service: What's at Stake in the Debate?
This HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series event features Aaron Belkin, Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University and author o...
Global Colorism with Trina Jones
Scholars have widely discussed colorism – the differential treatment of same-race individuals based on skin color – with regard to the African-America...