LECTURE: Week (10) - Gender equity
This lecture will be held Tuesday, March 30 2021, 2:30pm-3:45pm central time -- live in-person in 3650 Humanities and simultaneously streamed online at go.wisc.edu/n6986j for remote viewing. The lecture recording and slides will be posted below within 24 hours.
This week we are focusing on a particular kind of diversity and inclusion issue: gender in the workplace. This is an issue that is particularly important in the tech and finance industries today, where many of our lecture examples originate. However, these concerns are connected to just about every field, workplace, and career you can imagine.
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Supplemental videos
Lecture for this week again incorporates some clips from external videos which I will link to separately below. The first embedded clip is an interview with the CEO of MasterCard on the steps their company has taken to diversify their workforce. Here it is separately in case you want to refer back to it:
The second clip is from our very own UW-Madison Psychology professor Janet Hyde on what she calls the "gender similarities hypothesis". (It is taken from the Charlie Rose talk show which is no longer on the air.)
The third clip is a Vox/Netflix "explainer" on the gender wage gap, with some fascinating global case studies of success. (Sorry, for media rights reasons the clip will apparently not embed, but you can click through below.)
https://youtu.be/hP8dLUxBfsU
Links to an external site.
Finally, here is a bonus clip, not included in the lecture above: A 14-minute TED talk by Dame Stephanie Shirley, who is a key technology entrepreneur and innovator from the history of computer software development whom I'd wager you may have not heard of before now. Her story is fascinating and instructive, and well worth your time to watch.