What Works by Iris Bohnet

Author:Iris Bohnet
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Designing Gender Equality—Level the Playing Field

Prevent gender bias from having an impact: use gender-neutral designs.

Mitigate the impact of gender bias on yourself and others; do not share biased self-assessments with supervisors; give feedback to help people correct their biases.

Compensate for differential impact due to gender bias.

Part Four

HOW TO DESIGN DIVERSITY

10

Creating Role Models

Like most office lobbies, when you enter Harvard Kennedy School you will see portraits on the wall. They hang in our public spaces, classrooms, conference centers, and office suites. Inspired by research findings, we recently added a few new ones. Made possible through the leadership of my colleague, Jenny Mansbridge, and the Women and Public Policy Program, they now include Ida B. Wells, the US civil rights activist and suffragist; Abigail Adams, the second First Lady of the United States; Edith Stokey, economist and “founding mother” of the Kennedy School, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and a graduate of the school.

This is a work in progress. Harvard still has more to do. The student newspaper, the Crimson, reported in March 2012: “Of the more than 60 figures portrayed in the art of Annenberg Hall, three are women—two of them are tending to children, while the third welcomes her warrior husband home to a life of domestic tranquility.”

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