Gender+Differences
How Investors Can Help Close the Gender Funding Gap
Women entrepreneurs get less than four cents of every venture capital dollar in Canada. It’ll take more than targets and promises to move the needle
Five Ideas to Improve Gender Equity Today
A panel of experts shares how to make your workplace better for women and non-binary people — right now
New Ways to Break the Glass Ceiling
Why behavioural economics should become a tool for executive recruitment
The Problem With How We Talk About Diversity
Celebrating stars who break the glass ceiling can set back the cause for equality. Ditto for pushing the business case
How Relationships at Home Affect Leaders at Work
Research shows why companies should offer more personal support to people in leadership roles
Can the Canadian Armed Forces Recruit More Women?
Previous efforts have failed to convince women that there’s no life like it. But researchers may have a better way
The Shadow Over Female Investment Analysts
Many investors think female stock pickers are more risk averse. In truth, women perform as well, and maybe better, than men
The Gender Gap in Severance Deals. And What it Reveals
Women CEOs negotiate better severance deals than men—for good reason, unfortunately
Start-Up Funding: Jack Gets the Bread, Jill the Crumbs
If it’s not implicit bias, then why do female entrepreneurs struggle to access venture capital?
Women as Leaders: Do They Make a Difference?
They tend to have “communal” priorities that shape corporate policies on social responsibility
Breadwinners, Breadsharers, and the Status of Women’s Work
The value husbands place on their wives’ contribution depends more on the social status the job offers than the money it brings in
The Marital Lives of High-Status Women
Women who hold higher status than their partners have a greater chance of experiencing divorce. Having a helpful husband is one antidote to the Oscar love curse