What Works

Iris Bohnet

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• Listen to Iris Bohnet on the Freakonomics Radio episode “What Are Gender Barriers Made Of?”
• At NiemanLab, read a summer 2018 open letter (copublished by multiple journalism organizations) on how to respond to sexism and sexual harassment in the news industry which cites Professor Bohnet’s recommendations for designing bias-free organizations
• Read a Quartz at Work interview with Bohnet on how best to design fair hiring practices
• At the New York Times, read Iris Bohnet’s overview of ways to combat biases in workplace performance appraisal and narrow the gender gap in promotion and a Q&A—conducted by Bohnet—with the founders of two behavioral design start-ups seeking to use gamified neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and the psychology of decision-making to improve hiring practices
• Read about a new research portfolio on gender and technology, “What Works: Designing Gender Equality for and by the Tech Sector,”—directed by Bohnet and funded by $2 million from Melinda Gates—at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program
• Read a New York Times column exploring Bohnet’s experience navigating the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos, and the various microaggressions and oversights commonly found at such conferences
• Read an interview with Bohnet and an excerpt from What Works at the Harvard Business School blog Working Knowledge
• Explore Bohnet’s work in depth in a Harvard Business Review feature
• Read Bohnet’s Atlantic essay on using “people analytics” to combat bias in pay negotiation and professional recognition
• Read an interview with Bohnet at People Management
• Read an interview with Bohnet in Social Europe
• At Harvard Business Review and Wired UK, read Bohnet’s advice on how to take the bias out of professional interviews
• On WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, listen to Bohnet propose ways to make gender equality less about changing individual minds—and more about changing systems
• Read The Psych Report’s interview with Bohnet
• Watch Bohnet’s presentation at SXSW Interactive 2016 and read a related interview
• Read Bohnet’s Wall Street Journal essay on concrete steps for fixing workplace bias
• Listen to Bohnet discuss a data-driven approach to overcoming workplace bias on WBUR’s Radio Boston, WAMC’s The Roundtable, KPCW’s Mountain Money [at 29:00], KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and Today [at 01:17:15], the Financial Times podcast, and the Social Science Bites podcast
• Read a Q&A with Bohnet in the Washington Post’s Wonkblog
• Read an excerpt from What Works in the Globe and Mail
• In the Sydney Morning Herald, read about some of the basic changes, detailed in What Works, that workplaces could implement today to promote equality
• At SharpHeels, read Bohnet’s warning about the limits of an individualized “lean in” philosophy as it meets entrenched problems of organizational structure—and how to work around that structure to excel professionally
• Read a Metro interview with Bohnet
• At Quartz, read an introduction to the seemingly intractable problem of “moral licensing”—and how Bohnet seeks to overcome it
• Via PBS Newshour, read an excerpt from What Works and watch Bohnet discuss why, and how, women are still subject to egregious gender discrimination on the Wall Street trading floor
• Via the Boston Globe, listen to Bohnet discuss some of the lessons from What Works on the Harvard Kennedy School’s PolicyCast
• Watch or listen to Bohnet’s lecture at the RSA
• Listen to Bohnet lecture at the London School of Economics
• View or listen to Bohnet’s presentation of What Works at a 2015 meeting of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program’s Seminar Series
• Via C-SPAN’s BookTV, watch Bohnet discuss What Works at the Washington, DC, bookstore Politics & Prose
• Watch Bohnet lecture on workplace inequality at Mozilla
• Read Bohnet’s overview of her research in WirtschaftsWoche [in German]
• Watch an interview with Bohnet on SRF Kultur [in German]
• Via the Women and Public Policy Program, browse a list of recent news stories for which Bohnet was interviewed or her work consulted

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