50+ Books, Podcasts, and Articles to Guide Your Company’s Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) continues to be an ongoing conversation in the startup ecosystem. At Venwise, we see companies at all stages of their DEI efforts interested in expanding these initiatives from their recruitment pipeline to creating policies and practices that bolster an inclusive culture.

Thanks to Gary Davis, Lori Muszynski, Fanny Krivoy, Kamini Ramlakhan, and Belen Garcia for sending Venwise this collection of resources that provide an overview for understanding identity and inclusiveness.

Books

General

• Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace, and The Will To Change — Jennifer Brown
• How To Be An Inclusive Leader — Jennifer Brown
• Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces — Karen Catlin
• Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change — Ellen Pao
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do — Claude M. Steele
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People — Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
• Belonging At Work: Everyday Actions You Can Take to Cultivate an Inclusive Organization — Rhodes Perry
• The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business — Erin Meyer

Gender

• That’s What She Said: What Men Need to Know (And Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together — Joanne Lipman
• Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women — W. Brad Johnson PhD & David Smith PhD
• Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture — Elissa Shevinsky
• One: How Male Allies Support Women for Gender Equality — Julie Kratz
• What Works: Gender Equality by Design — Iris Bohnet

Gender Identity

• Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity — Arlene Stein
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity Love and So Much More — Janet Mock

Race

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism — Robin DiAngelo
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness — Austin Channing Brown
• So You Want to Talk About Race — Ijeoma Oluo
• Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race — Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White — Frank Wu
• Don’t Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times — Irshad Manji

LGBTQIA

• This Book is Gay — Juno Dawson
• We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation — Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown

Age

• Wisdom at Work: the Making of a Modern Elder — Chip Conley
• This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism — Ashton Applewhite

Podcasts

General

• Tech Inclusion — Change Catalyst
• The Will to Change — Jennifer Brown

Gender

• Women at Work — HBR
• The Guilty Feminist — Deborah Frances-White
• Men — Scene On Radio
• #SecureTheSeat — Minda Harts

LGBTQIA

• Making Gay History — Eric Marcus

Race

• Code Switch — NPR
• See Something Say Something — Buzzfeed
• Seeing White — Scene On Radio
• Democracy in Color — Steve Phillips
• Dear White Women — Sara and Misasha
• All My Relations — Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene

Articles

• 12 Unconscious Bias Examples and How to Avoid them in the Workplace — Bailey Reiners
• Unconscious Bias Test — Project Implicit
• Respectful Collection of Demographic Data — Sarai Rosenberg
• 3 Ways To Establish Leadership Accountability & Combat Toxic Cultures — Pluto
• Don’t Be an Ally, Be an Accomplice — Willie L. Jackson II
• Diversity Sourcing Strategy: 3 LinkedIn Search Tips from Boolean Master Glen Cathey — Maxwell Huppert
• How to use Employee Referrals to Increase Workplace Diversity — Vinayak Ranade
• Unleashing the Power of Inclusion — Deborah L. DeHaas, Brent Bachus, Eliza Horn
• The №1 Strategy for True Inclusion in the Workplace — Dan Grafstein
• 70 Inclusive Language Principles That Will Make You A More Successful Recruiter — Nehemiah Green
• The Urgency of Intersectionality — Kimberlé Crenshaw
• If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired — Stefanie K. Johnson, David R. Heckman, Elsa T. Chan
• Could This Be The Secret To Hiring More Women And People Of Color? — Emily Peck
• Do your Diversity Efforts Reflect the Experiences of Women of Color — Ruchika Tulshyan
• How Organizations Can Create Trans Inclusive Work Environments — Tash Wilder

We know the list goes on. What are your favorite resources? Add them in the comments!

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