The Future is… Full of Potential
My reflections on the EQUALL conference earlier this month, and the ways insights from the conference have inspired me to change my behaviour.
My reflections on the EQUALL conference earlier this month, and the ways insights from the conference have inspired me to change my behaviour.
We spend $5million a year removing one of the barriers to women in leadership. Here's 10 things every business leader could, and should, do this year to help smash the glass ceiling once and for all. On Saturday we [...]
January 28, 2020 “I heard about the Laidlaw Scholarship quite early on in my first year, but I wasn’t sure whether I was ready to do it as I’d just settled in. Initially I thought you had to be [...]
by Noam Vogt-Vincent. Supervisor: Joerg Lippold Organisation: Heidelberg University Year of Scholarship: 2018
Over the last two decades, organizations have seen substantial progress in increasing women’s representation in top leadership. While the numbers are still far from parity, the general view is that this progress for women in top leadership will naturally spread to improve women’s outcomes in other domains, such as pay equality. But is this true? Researchers conducted five studies measuring or experimentally manipulating people’s perceptions of gender diversity in top leadership, and found a strikingly consistent pattern: when people perceive greater levels of women’s representation in top leadership, they overgeneralize the extent to which women have access to equal opportunities, which then decreases their concern with gender inequality in pay and other domains. These findings are worrisome because people’s concern with inequality ultimately predicts their willingness to address it.