We need to stop looking at women to fix the problem. And we need to start looking at the organizational barriers that prevent women wanting to be part of that organization.
Blog posts
Why women like Jacinda Ardern make such strong leaders
Alison Pullen on the need for more feminine leadership styles that diverge from traditional models.
We need to judge women leaders differently to their male counterparts
Interview with Alison Pullen for The Lighthouse about research with Sheena J. Vachhani about feminist ethics and women leaders.
Sexual harassment in the finance services sector is a symptom of the crisis at the heart of leadership
By Alison Pullen, Celina McEwen and Carl Rhodes In an article published in Women's Agenda, we discuss the culture of violence against women that is prevalent in the finance sector. To address this normalisation of harassment, we argue that there is a need for tackling leadership inequality but mostly a need to change the traditional … Continue reading Sexual harassment in the finance services sector is a symptom of the crisis at the heart of leadership
Why would Australia Post go out of its way to deliver Pauline Hanson’s stubby holders?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. By Carl Rhodes Back in July, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson appeared in her then-regular spot on Channel Nine’s Today program. During a discussion about the hard lockdown of Melbourne’s public housing towers Hanson said: A lot of these people are from non-English … Continue reading Why would Australia Post go out of its way to deliver Pauline Hanson’s stubby holders?
Not all awareness training impacts inequalities equally
By C. McEwen, A. Pullen and C. Rhodes Does unconscious bias training address inequality? Can it make things worse? We address these questions in a short piece for The Sydney Morning Herald's The Lowdown. Based on early results from our research, we found that unconscious bias training is blinding Australian business to the realities of … Continue reading Not all awareness training impacts inequalities equally
Eight reasons why diversity is difficult to achieve in organizations
Bringing about change in an organization is challenging even for organizations that anticipate the business case benefits of diversity interventions.
Should we pause fieldwork?: A consequence of COVID-19 lockdown on research
Given that all of our case organizations are affected by the lockdown and our main methods are observation and interviews, we have needed to rethink our data collection, and our interactions with organizations and key individuals.
Three lessons from intersectional politics for leadership diversity
In this blogpost, we suggest that leadership can advance diversity and equality in organisations by incorporating a more radical and transversal politics.
Solidarity is not dead: how workers can force progressive change
This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons. Photo by Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty. Google employees in Dublin, Ireland, join others from around the world in protest over claims of sexual harassment, gender inequality and systemic racism at the tech giant. By Carl Rhodes In November last year, … Continue reading Solidarity is not dead: how workers can force progressive change
