Earlier this week, I gave a web lecture during the Performa HR Trends Congres on inclusive, systematic and evidence-based diversity policy. In it, I also addressed the results from the most recent HR Trends research, conducted among HR professionals in the Netherlands, which indicated that diversity and inclusion are still not considered a priority in the workplace. Curious, since many of the themes that were in the top 10 depend on solid diversity and inclusion management practices (for example, talent management, recruitment & selection, absenteeism and employee engagement and retention).
Vlogging on gender stereotypes
Together with two students from X11 Highschool for Media and Design, I created a vlog on gender stereotypes as part of an Utrecht Young Academy vlog project. It was a lot of fun to connect the curiosity of these students to the current state of knowledge on gender stereotypes.
Curious to see the vlog? Check it out here
On March 4, during a special premiere in the Academy building of the university, the students, members of the Utrecht Young Academy and JINC colleagues (who coordinated the project) gathered in the University Hall to watch the vlogs together and discuss the project. Watch all vlogs here!
The gender stereotypes team
The Genderful World Podcast: Gender Diversity at Work
The Genderful World Podcast is an extension of the What a Genderful World exhibition at the Tropenmuseum. In this podcast, journalist and podcasthost, Zoë Papaikonomou, discusses topics that go beyond he/she, with a co-host and changing guests.
In the third episode, my PhD student Onur Sahin offers his expertise on gender diversity at work. Together with Suzan Steeman from Women Inc. and diversity consultant Tarim Flach, he addresses relevant questions such as “How do conscious and unconscious prejudices, stereotypes and gender discrimination affect our behavior and our work-related choices?” and “How do we make workplaces more inclusive?”.
You can listen to the podcast here.
Photo Credit: https://www.nieuwwij.nl/actueel/genderful-world-podcast-gender-en-werk/
Harvard Lunch Lecture: LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Curriculum, Clinic & Classroom
** Due to current travel restrictions, this event has unfortunately been cancelled **
On March 19th, Jessica Halem, the LGBTQ Outreach and Engagement Director at Harvard Medical School, will talk about overhauling the medical curriculum to integrate sexual and gender minority health equity, and about creating a safe environment for students and faculty to be open about their LGBTQ identity.
Under Jessica Halem’s leadership, the first-year class has grown from 4% to 15% self-identified LGBTQ and the faculty OutList has quadrupled in size. Most recently, she secured a major grant to overhaul the curriculum to integrate sexual and gender minority health equity.
This lunch lecture is organised by LUMC Pride, Leiden Pride and the LGBT+ Network at Leiden University. The event will take place on March 19th 2020, from 13:00 to 14:00 at LUMC.
Free entrance and lunch is included. Interested? You can register here to attend this event.
Save the date: All-inclusive lecture on International Women's day
Opening doors for women in STEM
A report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to which my co-authors Evava Pietri, Leslie Ashburn-Nardo and Corinne Moss-Racusin and I contributed an expert review was released to the public today.
“Promising Practices for Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine reviews and synthesizes existing research on policies, practices, programs, and other interventions for improving the recruitment, retention, and sustained advancement into leadership roles of women in [STEM] disciplines. This report makes actionable recommendations to leverage change and drive swift, coordinated improvements to the systems of education, research, and employment in order to improve both the representation and leadership of women.”
The pre-publication can be accessed HERE
Panel on The Commercial Power of LGBTI Inclusion
On February 11th I was a panelist at Baker McKenzie’s very first client-facing LGBT-event, together with Maria Irvin (VP Talent & Development, Upstream at Shell) and Janet Visbeen (Partner and member Tax & Legal Board at PwC Netherlands). We had a very engaged audience and a lively discussion on the following statements:
1. In order to foster LGBT inclusion, the firm’s commitment to LGBT equality should be embedded in all corporate & internal communications.
2. Any company that claims to take LGBT rights seriously must be prepared to lose clients who are not (or educate them).
3. Only organizations that foster a climate of diversity, inclusiveness and trust can have strong and lasting position in the market.
Global Employee Survey launched!
If organizations want to devise evidence-based inclusion policies, they need insight into employees’ experiences. To this end, we launched the long-awaited Global Employee Survey, a collaboration between my chair at Leiden University and the Workplace Pride foundation. The launch took place last Thursday at the Workplace Pride Foundation New Year’s reception, hosted by VodafoneZiggo.
Open for participation by employees across the globe, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression or sex characteristics. Tell your colleagues!
Article published on The Psychology of Morality
A recent article my co-authors and I published in Personality and Social Psychology Review has been viewed and downloaded a total of 11,644 since it first appeared online, making it one of the most read articles in the journal in the past 6 months.
The abstract appears below and the article can be downloaded HERE
The Psychology of Morality: A Review and Analysis of Empirical Studies Published From 1940 Through 2017
Naomi Ellemers, Jojanneke van der Toorn, Yavor Paunov, & Thed van Leeuwen
We review empirical research on (social) psychology of morality to identify which issues and relations are well documented by existing data and which areas of inquiry are in need of further empirical evidence. An electronic literature search yielded a total of 1,278 relevant research articles published from 1940 through 2017. These were subjected to expert content analysis and standardized bibliometric analysis to classify research questions and relate these to (trends in) empirical approaches that characterize research on morality. We categorize the research questions addressed in this literature into five different themes and consider how empirical approaches within each of these themes have addressed psychological antecedents and implications of moral behavior. We conclude that some key features of theoretical questions relating to human morality are not systematically captured in empirical research and are in need of further investigation.
Successful first year of the Netherlands Inclusiveness Monitor
On December 3rd, the Netherlands Inclusiveness Monitor (NIM), held its annual event in the Academy Building at Utrecht University. Led by Naomi Ellemers, Wiebren Jansen, and myself, the NIM bridges science and practice with the aim to contribute to inclusive workplaces. The event marked the end of the first successful year of the NIM and was very well received by all involved. We presented the recurring patterns in the diversity policy and employee experiences of the participating organizations, connected these findings to the newest scientific insights, and presented the benchmark.
The results so far show that organizations undertake many initiatives to facilitate diversity and inclusion in the workplace. But certain issues remain underexposed. There is, for example, relatively little attention for measuring policy effectiveness and for the exit domain of Human Resources, while the scientific literature suggests that good diversity management should be systematic and holistic (i.e., cover all HR domains). With the NIM we offer organizations the tools to focus less on best practices and more on best methods.
