This International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate taking an evidence-based approach to understanding gender inequality in the labour market. Apparently, “men apply for a job when they meet only 60% of the qualifications, but women apply only if they meet 100%”. …

The pandemic has dramatically shifted ways of working, with 57% of employees now wanting either full time home working or ‘hybrid working’ — where they are in the office for some of the week and at home for the remainder. At the same time, working hours have increased for remote…

One out of three women experience physical and/or sexual violence at some point in their lives, the majority at the hands of an intimate partner, both globally and in Latin America. Studies show that men are responsible for the overwhelming majority of these acts. The first and most basic thing…

Recruiters spend less than 10 seconds screening a CV or resume. Such rapid decision-making increases the role that bias can play in hiring decisions. Rather than skills, irrelevant factors can become filtering criteria or sources of discrimination, consciously or otherwise. To test how changes to the design of CVs might…

Findings from 20 million job applications — one of the biggest experimental social policy trials ever published With almost 40% of employees working from home this year, remote working and other forms of flexibility have become the norm and myths about productivity losses have started to evaporate. 2020 has given many the opportunity for a more flexible working pattern — and the appetite for flexibility hit new…

Everyone should be valued and treated as equal regardless of gender. Yet in too many workplaces, sexist behaviours and sexual harassment are still a problem. In Australia, one in three people have been sexually harassed in the workplace in the past 5 years. Reducing sexist behaviours and sexual harassment in…

The corporate buzzwords of the moment: unconscious bias and diversity training. These training programmes have been introduced to organisations across the world over decades, with high hopes that they will make workplaces more inclusive. In the US alone, companies spend $8billion a year on diversity training. But do they work? …

Last year, we were sent a request that was intriguing, and a bit scary. At BIT we spend a lot of time setting up Randomized Controlled Trials and other ways of evaluating impact reliably. We really care about finding out whether what we’re doing “works” — and where, when, and…