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- 25th Oct 2018
50 years on from the Race Relations Act: can behavioural insights help solve inequality?
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Race Relations Act 1968. The groundbreaking legislation made it illegal in the UK to discriminate against people based on their colour, race, ethnicity, or national origins, and refuse them housing, employment or public services. It wasn’t until the 1968 Act that the infamous…
- Blog
- 23rd Oct 2018
The rise of returners: New dynamic norm opens door to gender equality in the workplace
Earlier this year, UK companies with 250 employees or more published their Gender Pay Gap (GPG). With a national average of 18% difference in pay between men and women employees, many organisations are now wondering what they can do to close the gap. The lack of women at senior levels…
- Blog
- 17th Oct 2018
50,000 candidates have now applied for jobs through Applied – the Behavioural Insights Team’s first BI Venture
In the early 1970s, only one in twenty people in the top five US orchestras were women. Now that figure is more like one in three. As Harvard Professor Iris Bohnet explains in her book on ‘what works’ to reduce gender inequality, one of the reasons for this shift is…
- Blog
- 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…
- Report
- 1st Aug 2018
Reducing the gender pay gap and improving gender equality in organisations
Evidence-based actions for employers
- Report
- 21st Jun 2018
Presenting gender pay gap figures to the public: an online randomised controlled trial
We worked with GEO to test alternative ways of presenting GPG figures to affect comprehension and public attitudes; we wanted the public to be able to distinguish between companies with a large GPG and those with a small GPG.
- Blog
- 15th Jun 2018
Watch: how to tackle the gender pay gap
Many employers want to make real improvements to gender equality and diversity, but choosing which actions to implement can be challenging. There’s a gap between established practice and evidence. For example, employers could be forgiven for thinking that adding one woman to a shortlist is an effective way to hire…
- Blog
- 21st May 2018
BX2018: Diverse approaches to improving gender diversity
This is the first in a series of blog posts in the lead up to the Behavioural Exchange 2018 conference in Sydney. It continues the ongoing conversation that we, as a global organisation, have been having about diversity, and the role Behavioural Insights can play in improving gender equality. To…
- Blog
- 8th Mar 2018
What employers should do about their gender pay gaps
For the first time in history, employers with 250 or more employees in the UK are required by law to publicly report their gender pay gaps. The gender pay gap is not the same as unequal pay. Unequal pay means paying men and women differently for performing similar work (and…
- Blog
- 6th Feb 2018
One hundred years of votes for women: what next to close the gender gap in politics?
Behavioural science can offer a range of solutions for the political gender gap. One promising direction is to increase the visibility of female politicians that young women can identify with.