#MeToo

Katica Roy

Dec 19, 2022
3 min

10 Major Gender Equity Events From 2022

10 Big Gender Equity Events From 2022 It’s time for your annual gender retrospective. In keeping with the tradition of the season, this article shares ten major news stories from 2022 that rattled the gender equity beat. 1. Educational Attainment We increased our time to educational gender equity by 83% in the past two years, which means that we are on track to achieve gender equity in educational attainment by 2044. Considering that a country’s GDP per capita increases by 10

The Top 10 Gender Equity Trends From The Past Decade: Infographic Edition

Katica Roy

Feb 16, 2022
3 min

The Top 10 Gender Equity Trends From The Past Decade: Infographic Edition

A Decade Of Gender Equity In 10 Trends I want to share with you 10 highlights from my annual report: A Decade Of Gender Equity In 10 Trends. The report identifies the key trends in intersectional gender equity from the past decade, quantifies them, and then projects what level of progress might be possible in the decade ahead. Here’s a sneak peek of the 10 trends I discuss in the report. Educational Attainment UNESCO estimates that 11 million girls in lower-income countries a

Is The Great Resignation Impacting Your DEI Strategy?

Katica Roy

Sep 27, 2021
4 min

Is The Great Resignation Impacting Your DEI Strategy?

Welcome to my weekly Q&A roundup. (Scroll down to find the Q&A.) If this is your first time here, welcome. I spend a fair amount of time speaking at events and conferences. At the end of my presentations, I leave space for audience members to ask questions—tough questions, brave questions, you name it. The level of candor and curiosity always inspires me, and I want to share that sentiment with you. So each week, I pick one question that I believe others would find most instr

What Does A “Safe” Workplace Look Like For Knowledge Workers?

Katica Roy

Jul 14, 2021
3 min

What Does A “Safe” Workplace Look Like For Knowledge Workers?

Do You Have Diversity Fatigue? Here’s How To Address It

Katica Roy

Aug 31, 2020
3 min

Do You Have Diversity Fatigue? Here’s How To Address It

#DEI #diversityfatigue #DampIpledge #inclusion #DampI #diversitypledge Welcome to my weekly Q&A roundup. (Scroll down to find the Q&A.) If this is your first time here, welcome. I spend a fair amount of time speaking at events and conferences. At the end of my presentations, I leave space for audience members to ask questions—tough questions, brave questions, you name it. The level of candor and curiosity always inspires me, and I want to share that sentiment with you. So eac

The May 21 U.S. Supreme Court Decision was Bad for Business

Katica Roy

Dec 19, 2018
3 min

The May 21 U.S. Supreme Court Decision was Bad for Business

#EconomicsofGenderEquity #genderequity On May 21, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in a trio of cases that was largely judged as a blow to employees’ rights. The central issue was if employers could include class-action waivers in arbitration clauses in employment agreements, and whether class action waivers were enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Action and not barred by the National Labor Relations Act. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court said, in

What Hashtag Culture Teaches Us About Gender Equity

Katica Roy

Apr 16, 2018
6 min

What Hashtag Culture Teaches Us About Gender Equity

#genderequality #hashtag #hashtaghistory #solutionstogenderinequality Hashtags and gender equity aren’t about either. They’re really about having a voice. Sexual harassment, assault, bias…none of these are new. What is new is our access to information and our access to each other. For folks who have survived harassment, assault, bias, or all three (myself included) hashtags give us a way to stand up, speak out, and connect with each other. We were once living in a world where

The Business Case For Gender Equity: Encouraging The C-Suite to Leverage This Unparalleled Economic

Katica Roy

Apr 9, 2018
3 min

The Business Case For Gender Equity: Encouraging The C-Suite to Leverage This Unparalleled Economic

#closegendergap #gendereconomics #genderequity #genderpaygap Closing the gender equity gap in our lifetime has the potential to unlock huge economic opportunities for business. Today, we are experiencing a global push for gender equality, gender equity, and diversity, within business. Social media movements like #MeToo,#TimesUp, and #PressForProgress, and marches and rallies like those we observed on International Women’s Day this year, have shed a positive spotlight on the b

Katica Roy

Mar 29, 2018
5 min

10 Ways SXSW Is Creating Gender Equity

#genderequity #gendergap #solutionstogenderinequality Was it just a coincidence that SXSW 2018 launched the day after International Women’s Day? Regardless, the momentum gender equity has been experiencing for the past year was evident at SXSW by the variety of amazing panels, speakers, and initiatives. Here are 10 ways SXSW put gender equity front and center in 2018. #1: By Promising to Do Better In 2015, SXSW botched its attempt to promote gender equity with the Gamergate i