Pay transparency legislation
Sarah Kaplan talks with CBC business news about how pay transparency could narrow the wage gap between men and women
Women-focused co-working spaces increase in Canada
Speaking on CBC television, Sarah Kaplan discussed the role that women’s only workplaces can play in the era of #MeToo.
#MeToo Backlash In Corporate Canada Sees Women Locked Out
Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Huffington Post about how male colleagues and supervisors are using #MeToo to avoid mentoring.
Defenders of Democracy?
Sarah Kaplan appears on TVO’s The Agenda to talk about the role of the corporation in society.
Experts talk strategy behind the grocery wars
Kaplan joined other experts on TVO’s The Agenda to discuss “Grocery Store Wars” looking at some of the major players in the grocery game and how their actions influence consumers.
First Review! “The 360º Corporation: Sarah Kaplan on embracing stakeholder trade-offs to achieve social good”
Review by Peter Chadwick of IEDP: “…finding ways to innovate around these trade-offs can be a source of organizational resilience and transformation…” Excerpt: “In her new book, The 360º Corporation, Sarah Kaplan, Distinguished Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, suggests that achieving perfect shared value is unrealistic and that the shared […]
Thought Leader Interview: Sarah Kaplan
“Every business model — from the corner store to a large corporation — contains implicit trade-offs between different stakeholders, whereby one group benefits and another is hurt in some way.”
Mind the gap: Business schools help women break the glass ceiling
Kaplan tells the Financial Times, “It is absolutely not about ‘teaching women…[this idea] allows firms to shirk their responsibilities to change workplace practices.”
Minister Patty Hajdu on pay equity and tackling the gender wage gap
The Hon. Patty Hajdu (Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour) joined Director Sarah Kaplan for a fireside chat with Rotman students. During this talk, Minister Hajdu explained the latest pay equity legislation put forward by the Canadian government, as well as other initiatives needed to close the gender wage gap.
StatCan study says men are paid more than women after graduation. Here’s how much more
Sarah Kaplan speaks to Global News about the gender wage gap. “Sarah Kaplan, professor at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto and director of the school’s Institute for Gender and the Economy, said she thinks the gender gap identified by the study mainly boils down to men and women taking on different jobs — […]
Footnote in CUSMA text allows U.S. to avoid LGBTQ rights clause
Sarah Kaplan is quoted by Global News on the North American trade negotiations. “Article 23.9 lays out policies to work together to end employment discrimination, explained Sarah Kaplan, director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy and professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. But she said the footnote […]
Gillette’s socially conscious message likely to get warm reception in Canada
CTV News quotes Sarah Kaplan about socially conscious advertising: “The ad places Gillette among handfuls of other companies who have turned to socially-conscious advertising — a growing phenomenon abroad and in Canada, said Sarah Kaplan, director of the University of Toronto’s Institute for Gender and the Economy. Two men are seen in a scene from […]
An MBA can raise women’s salaries, but make the pay gap worse
The Globe and Mail quotes Sarah Kaplan who “argues that real change rests on making structural reforms to company hiring and promotion practices. At present, she says, employees who want to join the leadership track have to opt in and say, “‘I want to get promoted.’” But she says preliminary findings by Rotman researchers show […]
This is how science can fix its glaring gender inequality problem
Wired magazine reports that “When Sarah Kaplan, professor of gender and the economy at the University of Toronto, recently got invited to speak on a panel where she was the only woman, she immediately wrote back saying this was inexcusable….”
Five gender equality solutions for medicine and science
Scitech Europa reports that Profs. Sonia Kang and Sarah Kaplan offer five gender equality solutions for medicine and science.
Why the ‘business case’ for hiring more women isn’t working
Sarah Kaplan and Nancy Wilson (CEO of Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce) contribute to The Globe and Mail on how the business case might actually get in the way of progress on gender equality. As we mark International Women’s Day on Friday, many people – including us – will note that not enough progress has […]
Federal budget 2019: New funding will fill key data gaps, create Canadian information centre
Sarah Kaplan speaks to The Globe and Mail about the 2019 federal budget.
“The Conversation We’ve Been Having On Gender Equality Isn’t Working”
Sarah Kaplan appears in the Sirius XM Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School to discuss gender equality.
What motivated me to create the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE)
Hear why I think we can use rigorous research to change the conversation on gender equality.
Stanford University Press book page
Thrilled that Stanford University Press is publishing The 360º Corporation!
Sarah Kaplan at TEDxVaughanWomen
Sarah Kaplan gives a TEDx talk on gender equality as an innovation challenge, focusing on how the business case may actually be getting in the way of making progress.
Corporations: Defenders of Democracy?
Sarah Kaplan appears on TVO’s The Agenda to discuss the role of corporations in society.
Panel discussion on Gender Capitalism for TVO’s The Agenda
Sarah Kaplan appears with other experts on gender lens investing on TVO’s The Agenda.
Canadian women on the gender pay gap, and how we can fix it
Sarah Kaplan joins other experts to discuss the gender wage gap for a video by Maclean’s Magazine.
Why Are Business Schools Still Struggling to Recruit Women?
Sarah Kaplan speaks with VICE about how MBA culture needs to change in order to increase the numbers of women in programs.
Sneak peek of the book @ AOM 2019
Great “Meet the Author” event at the Academy of Management meetings in Boston on August 11 at the Stanford University Press booth. We offered sneak peek copies before the official September 3 publication date, had a book signing, chatted about the ideas! More about The 360º Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation here.
Women in the boardroom: Has the time for quotas arrived?
In this Globe and Mail op-ed, Sarah Kaplan and law professor Aaron Dhir suggest that quotas might be the only way to make meaningful progress (and it won’t compromise quality).
How to Brainstorm for Breakthrough Innovation
Sarah Kaplan appears in Knowledge@Wharton podcast series on how to achieve breakthrough innovation.
Podcast “Talking about Organizations” discussing research on cognitive categories
Podcast “Talking about Organizations” on my JMS piece on cognition and strategy.
Talk at AOM 2014 on Kathy Eisenhardt’s contribution to strategy as practice research
Video of my talk at AOM 2014 about Kathy Eisenhardt’s contributions to strategy research and qualitative research upon her receiving the distinguished scholar award from the Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) interest group.
Article on Mixing Quantitative and Qualitative Research
This chapter offers several models of ways that scholars can usefully integrate qualitative and quantitative research in both single works and broader research programs: using qualitative methods to identify constructs or hypotheses that can subsequently be examined in quantitative studies; using quantitative studies to identify patterns that can be explored in qualitative work; and, quantification […]
Meditations on the Business Case for Gender Diversity
Speaking at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Sarah Kaplan details the mission of the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) and pushes attendees to question the focus on making the “business case” for gender equality by asking three questions: What does the research say about the “business case”? Why do we need to […]
TVO’s The Agenda On Parental Leave
Sarah Kaplan appears on TVO’s The Agenda to talk about how parental leave policies can affect gender dynamics at work and and home. She was joined by Maya Roy, CEO of the YWCA.
Facing Challenges of Gender Diversity
In this short talk, Sarah Kaplan talks about the challenge for corporations in achieving gender diversity. This talk was part of the launch of the book, Survive and Thrive, which she co-edited with colleague Joshua Gans.
TVO’s The Agenda on Gender Equality for International Women’s Day
Sarah Kaplan appears with Steve Paikin on TVO’s The Agenda to talk about progress on gender equality for International Women’s Day in 2017.
Sarah Kaplan on Gender Equality: Rotman Short Talks
As part of our Rotman Short Talks series, hear from Professor Sarah Kaplan about why progress towards gender equality is slow. In it, she focuses on the risks of backlash and the discomfort associated with diversity. This talk was part of the launch event for the special issue of the Rotman Management Magazine on Inequality.
Because it’s 2017: Gender Equality as an Innovation Challenge
Sarah Kaplan argues that instead of focusing on building a ‘business case’ for gender equality, we need to re-frame it as an innovation challenge.
Leaders facing change need to be expert ghostbusters
Kaplan’s research on organizational change is cited by the Financial Times to explain how outmoded habits are often the same ones that knitted the old company together
Meritocracy: From Myth to Reality
Our frames of reference contain implicit biases that devalue women’s contributions and reinforce the privileges of dominant groups. Here’s what to do about it.
“Not business as usual”
Sarah Kaplan’s work at GATE is featured in Rotman Investors’ Report 2019
Institute for Gender and the Economy launched at U of T
Gender and the economy will be the focus of a new research institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.