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- 1st Aug 2018
New for employers: the latest evidence on What Works to reduce the Gender Pay Gap
Imagine a four-person shortlist that has three women and one man on it. With this shortlist, a woman will be hired only 67% of the time. If you've got two women and two men on the shortlist, a woman will be hired 50% of the time - the odds you…
- Blog
- 8th Feb 2019
8 ways to understand your organisation’s Gender Pay Gap
New guidance for employers published this week
- Blog
- 1st Jul 2020
PRIDE reflection blog 🏳️🌈: How defaults impact the LGBTQIA+ community
There are few concepts as renowned or respected in behavioural science as the power of defaults. Defaults refer to the ‘status quo’ or ‘business-as-usual’ option that is pre-selected, by design or by accident, by the architect of choice. Default options can have a profound impact on human decision making. However,…
- Blog
- 17th Nov 2020
Switching the default to advertise part-time working boosts applications from women by 16%
The difference in pay between women and men tends to increase sharply after the birth of a woman’s first child. Women are much more likely than men to move to part-time working, often to balance home and care responsibilities. Once women move to part-time roles, they often fail to progress…
- Blog
- 15th Dec 2020
Unconscious bias and diversity training – the evidence
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? This…
- Report
- 10th Jun 2021
Flexibility by default: Increasing the advertisement of part-time or job-share options
BIT partnered with the John Lewis Partnership (JLP) to test whether increasing the advertisement of part-time or job-share options would increase career progression among JLP’s part-time staff.
- Blog
- 18th Jun 2021
Simply telling men that their peers support parental leave and flexible working, increases their intention to share care
According to recent research, 76% of mothers and 73% of fathers would like to work flexibly to spend more time with children - a remarkably similar proportion. Yet mothers are much more likely to work part-time than fathers. So if dads want to work flexibly, what’s stopping them? One barrier…
- Report
- 18th Jun 2021
Supporting men to take longer parental leave and work flexibly
Whilst there are a range of barriers contributing to men’s lower uptake of parental leave and flexible working, one explanation could be that, while men privately want to take more paternity leave and work flexibly, and are supportive of others who do, they underestimate support for these behaviours among their…
- Report
- 15th Jul 2021
Encouraging sexual orientation disclosure in recruitment
We worked with the recruitment platform Applied, which aims to remove bias from the hiring process, to understand what works to increase voluntary disclosure, particularly for sexual orientation.
- Blog
- 15th Jul 2021
Improving equality, diversity and inclusion starts with good data
Data is critical for progressing equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) goals. Transparency and accountability are both foundational for improving EDI and these cannot be achieved without data regarding both employee characteristics and workplace outcomes. While gender pay gap reporting has been shown to reduce gender inequality, many organisations in the…