Most Canadian workers support equity efforts despite some backlash: report

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Canadian Press about DEI backlash.

“Gender-Lens Investing” Takes Over

Sarah Kaplan’s work on gender and finance cited in Phunu Vietnam.

Employers can support caregivers with enhanced benefits, inclusive conversations: experts

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Benefits Canada about how employers can support employee caregiving needs.

LGBTQ+ on Boards: An Interview with LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors Canada

Sarah Kaplan’s research on LGBTQ+ board directors covered by the ICD.

Rotman School Professor Selected to Join The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program

Sarah Kaplan will work on her new book during the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency.

How Zero-Sum Beliefs Get in the Way of Fairness

Sarah Kaplan’s work is discussed in Behavioral Scientist. “To make progress in achieving gender equality, we must declare the discussion on whether and why we should pursue equality to be over.”

Research making a real difference

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Financial Times about making research have impact on policy and practice.

Diversidad, equidad e inclusión en jaque: ¿Retroceden las empresas?

Sarah Kaplan discusses in El Mostrador how DEI initiatives can have a positive impact on the bottom line if they are not performative.

Know your business’s purpose

Sarah Kaplan quoted in AB Magazine about how leaders need to demonstrate in a meaningful way that they are meeting the needs of stakeholders

Older, wiser and not ready to retire, women are hanging out their consulting shingle in mid-life

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Globe and Mail about career trajectories for women.

Rotman Professor Receives the 2024 Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award from the Academy of Management

Sarah Kaplan receives lifetime career achievement award recognizing long-term, significant contributions in linking research and practice.

‘Cancel Your Gays’ trend sees 2SLGBTQ+ characters disappearing from TV

Sarah Kaplan speaks to CBC news about the importance of LGBTQ+ representation in the media.

Remote work and inequality: Lessons for leaders

Sarah Kaplan’s coauthored work on remote work and inequality published in Forbes.

How Business Can Avoid The Traps On The Way To Finding Purpose

Sarah Kaplan’s work on how to implement corporate purpose discussed in Forbes.

New database discloses pay gaps, representation rates among Canada’s federally regulated private sectors

Sarah Kaplan quoted in the Globe and Mail on the new pay transparency results.

Le plan de relève chez Gildan a «complètement déraillé», selon une experte

Le conflit entre Vêtements de Sport Gildan et ses actionnaires démontre les risques qui peuvent entourer la planification de la relève, surtout lorsqu’un fondateur est impliqué.

‘Dramatic’ dispute over who will lead Gildan shows perils of succession planning

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Toronto Star about the role of the board in CEO succession planning.

Business School Lessons In Good And Bad Leadership From 2023

Sarah Kaplan comments for Forbes on leadership lessons from Greta Gerwig’s massive success with the Barbie movie.

OSC announces agenda and panellists for roundtable on diversity in Canada’s capital markets

Sarah Kaplan will speak on diversity on boards at an Ontario Securities Commission roundtable.

Le petit guide des investissements féministes

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Quatre 95 about feminist finance (en Français)

‘We are being ignored:’ older women in Ontario struggle with rising cost of housing

Sarah Kaplan featured in Global News article on poverty among older women.

Why gender analytics is good for business

Our work on Gender Analytics for inclusive product, service and policy design is featured in the Globe and Mail.

What’s the debate about pay transparency?

Sarah Kaplan speaks to CBC Radio about pay transparency (starting at 1hr26m).

Women Lead Here: a snapshot of executive gender diversity in corporate Canada

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Globe’s Report on Business about the need for sustained effort to achieve diversity in corporate Canada.

Not a single large, public Canadian firm has closed the gender pay gap, study finds

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Globe and Mail about the lack of urgency for gender equity in the Canadian corporate sector.

What the Ardern, Sturgeon resignations show about the ‘tightrope’ women walk in politics

Sarah Kaplan talks to GlobalNEWS about the doublebind that women political leaders face.

GLAD Welcomes New Board Members and Newly Elected Chair

Sarah Kaplan joins the board of directors of GLAD (GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders)

How recent tech layoffs can disproportionately affect women and people of color

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Fast Company about the impact of reduced diversity on the products and services tech cos design.

Order of Canada appointees far less diverse than the population, analysis shows

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the CBC about the under-representation of qualified women in the Order of Canada appointments.

Employers boosting fertility treatment benefits but critics say provinces can do more

Canadian Press consults Sarah Kaplan on the importance of employer fertility treatment benefits.

Unfinished business: Where corporate governance still falls short

Sarah Kaplan weighs in on questions of board overlap for the Globe and Mail.

Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada

The Financial Post covers Sarah Kaplan’s award in the professionals category of WXN Top 100 most powerful women in Canada

Is it time for Canada to broaden pay transparency laws?

Sarah Kaplan talks in this CityNewsTV interview about how to close the gender wage gap.

Calls for Canada to introduce pay transparency laws to help close gender wage gap

Sarah Kaplan speaks to CityNews about what will really close the gender wage gap.

Another Workplace Trend Has Emerged: ‘The Great Breakup’ Is Here

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Canadian Business about how women aren’t hesitating to leave their companies if they have faced discrimination.

Rotman School Professor and Graduates Named as Canada’s Most Powerful Women for 2022 by Women’s Executive Network

Sarah Kaplan is one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women for 2022.

A tech company pledged to make “anti-racist” layoffs. What does that mean?

Sarah Kaplan speaks to NPR’s Marketplace about how “neutral” layoff policies can have unintendedly biased effects.

‘Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens’ used for layoffs at tech firm – but is that legal?

Sarah Kaplan speaks to TechWire about how firms can level the playing field for marginalized groups during layoffs.

VC Funds Are Dominated by Men. These Women-Led Firms Are Trying to Changing That

Sarah Kaplan spoke with Canadian Business about disparities in the entrepreneurship space.

Rotman School Faculty and PhDs Honoured for Research and Service by the Academy of Management

Sarah Kaplan received the 2022 Scholarly Contributions to Educational Practice Advancing Women in Leadership Award from the Academy of Management (GDO division)

Tech Industry Layoffs May Undo Workforce Diversity Gains

Wired magazine features Sarah Kaplan in discussing the impacts on diversity of a tech industry downturn.

RBC names sitting BCE chief to board of directors, expanding executive web tying Canada’s banks and telecoms together

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Globe and Mail about new governance standards and board independence.

The Business Case For Diversity Is Backfiring

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Forbes about the unintended consequences of the business case for diversity.

Paid menstrual leave for workers could be on the way in Spain. Should Canada do the same?

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Toronto Star about the good and the unintended consequences of paid menstrual leave.

Tech layoffs could mean a disaster for diversity and inclusion

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Business Insider about the potentially negative effects on diversity of a tech industry slow down.

New report highlights issues surrounding the future of the care economy

Phys.org highlights GATE’s new report on the care economy (co-authored by Sarah Kaplan)

Towards a Caring Economy. New Report from Institute for Gender and the Economy Highlights Issues Surrounding the Future of the Care Economy

Press release featuring Sarah Kaplan and coauthors’ new report on the care economy

As abortion bans loom in the U.S., companies step up or stay quiet

Sarah Kaplan comments to CBC news about corporate strategies in the face of US abortion bans.

Young people ask for pay transparency in job postings, saying the deck is stacked against job seekers

Sarah Kaplan quoted by CBC News on the value of posting salary ranges in job ads.

The push for companies to disclose salaries

CBC’s The National interviews Sarah Kaplan about the benefits of publishing salary bands in job ads.

10 MIT SMR Articles to Celebrate Earth Day

Sarah Kaplan’s article on how social responsibility produces resilient organizations is a top 10!

Canada’s subsidized childcare edges closer as Ontario finally signs on

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Guardian about the work that still needs to be done to achieve affordable childcare in Canada.

Should gender still be a factor used to set car insurance rates?

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Lowest Rates.ca about the value of Gender Analytics in product and service design.

Svilupparsi anche dai conflitti

The Italian edition of 360º Corporation is reviewed by the Pirelli Foundation.

Diversidade, equidade e inclusão: o desafio pode ficar maior

Brazil’s HSM Management shares Sarah Kaplan’s insights on flexible work and the problems with the business case for diversity

What to do about women’s retirement income gap

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Vancouver Sun about the gender wage gap and women’s poverty in retirement.

11 Inspiring Women In Higher Education Highlight Key Challenges Women Face In The Workplace

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Forbes about the motherhood penalty, the gender wage gap and more.

‘We are all first responders’: ONA says Bill 124 contributing to nurses’ wage gap

Sarah Kaplan speaks to City News about the unintended gendered impacts of some austerity measures, including Bill 124.

These Toronto-based companies are letting their employees expense daycare

Sarah Kaplan speaks to CTV news about how childcare is a central part of the economic recovery from the pandemic.

Sharing salary information can narrow wage gaps — but studies show more equality can mean less pay

CBC consults Sarah Kaplan on the true sources of the gender wage gap, and whether pay transparency will help.

How to keep maternity leave from stalling women’s careers

Sarah Kaplan talks to the Financial Post about how businesses can make things better or worse when time comes to start a family

Ontario parents demand PCR testing for daycare kids, workers

Sarah Kaplan comments for CTV about the risk this new round of daycare uncertainty has for women’s careers.

Women, visible minorities make up larger share of latest Order of Canada appointments

Sarah Kaplan comments for the Globe and Mail about the need for constant vigilance in achieving representation of women and minorities.

Shaking Up Boardrooms and Society: The World’s First Purpose Governance Playbook

The Dey-Kaplan report: 360º Governance was mentioned in this Sustainable Business blog.

Why smashing the taboo around menopause makes good economic sense

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the CBC about the economic costs of menopause and how marketers can take advantage of misinformation.

Rotman School Professor Honoured with Governance Achievement Award from The Governance Professionals of Canada

Sarah Kaplan is recognized for impact on corporate governance reform with the Peter Dey Governance Achievement Award.

Paid menstrual leave takes aim at stigma of periods in the workplace

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Canadian Press about the pros and cons of paid period leave for people who menstruate.

Better data, more transparency needed to make diversity targets for corporate boards work: OSC panel

Canadian Lawyer highlights Sarah Kaplan’s comments at the OSC roundtable about the need for specific diversity goals for corporate boards.

When companies stop pretending ‘meritocracy’ explains all-male boards, women advance

Sarah Kaplan’s research on boardroom gender diversity is cited in the Globe and Mail

In order to reduce the gender wage gap, make all salaries transparent

In the Globe and Mail, Sarah Kaplan discusses how the main driver of the gender wage gap is job segregation

#ChamberBreakers: How gendered economy sets women up to fail

Sarah Kaplan speaks with the Yahoo/Verizon #ChamberBreakers podcast about the gendered nature of capitalism

Hybrid work risks becoming the next ‘career killer’ for women

Sarah Kaplan talks to the Globe and Mail about how hybrid work models my end up being gendered.

2021 “Responsible Research in Management” Winners Announcement

Paper with Rachael Goodman on “Work-Life Balance as a Household Negotiation” is “Distinguished Winner” of Responsible Research award.

How to build back better after COVID-19

Sarah Kaplan’s discussion with Ken Corts and Soo-Min Toh is published in Forbes India.

Coursera Course on Rotman School’s Professor’s Award Winning MBA Class and Book Launched

A new online course from Coursera helps participants examine these trade-offs and learn to address them either by rethinking), innovating around them, or thriving within them.

Another report, same Dey: New guidelines on corporate governance

The “360º Governance” report is featured in Canadian Lawyer

Vanishing teller jobs threaten women’s banking entry point

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Bloomberg Businessweek about the impact of automation on women’s career paths in banking.

The kids are not all right; As summer jobs season opens, many businesses remain closed

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Financial Post about the impact of COVID unemployment on young, racialized women.

Taking Stock of Governance — Understanding Emerging ESG, Regulatory, and Market Trends

The “Kaplan-Dey Report” on governance reform is discussed in Lexology.

Sunshine lists have helped narrow the gender pay gap, but Ottawa won’t commit to one

Sarah Kaplan comments to the Globe and Mail about the pros and cons of sunshine wage lists.

Corporate Social Responsibility in Today’s Socially and Politically Active World

In Reworked, Sarah Kaplan says that companies need to be public about the ways they are addressing climate change, social inequalities, pollution, and so on…

Lessons From COVID-19 For Company Board Directors: Here’s How To Upgrade Your Corporate Governance

360º Governance is featured in Forbes.

Digital experienced directors are rare at the top 100 TSX corporations – that’s a problem

Kaplan’s 360° Governance report is discussed in IT World Canada.

A year of consequences

Sarah Kaplan talks with 570 News: politicians and executives discover the hard way that bad behaviour isn’t tolerated as it once was (1:27:04)

A year of consequences: Politicians and executives discover the hard way that bad behaviour isn’t tolerated as it once was

Sarah Kaplan discusses in The Star how boards of directors must address political issues more robustly in the COVID era.

Race to the Top: Tracking Efforts to Establish a Global ESG Standard

A blog on Lexology features Dey and Kaplan’s “360º Governance” report.

Danone’s test case for sustainable business

The Financial Times quotes Sarah Kaplan about the trend towards more responsible business.

Canadian boards aren’t prepared for ESG era

Dey and Kaplan’s 360º Governance report is highlighted by The Logic.

Canada’s corporate boards are trapped in the past, must be revamped for ESG era: governance experts

The Globe and Mail features Peter Dey’s and Sarah Kaplan’s new 360º Governance guidelines.

Consolidating two visions of post-pandemic recovery

Policy Options discusses Sarah Kaplan’s work on aligning corporate strategy with social development and environmental sustainability goals

From the ’50s until now, women still bear the brunt of unpaid household labour

Sarah Kaplan talks to the Calgary Journal about how COVID-19 family demands has led women to adjust their paid responsibilities or leave the workforce altogether

The caring sector will lift the economy in the New Year

Sarah Kaplan’s work is discussed in CFJC Today’s analysis of the pandemic’s “she-cession.”

Making The Post-COVID World Sustainable And Humane

An article in Forbes cites The 360º Corporation’s recommendations to go beyond superficial greenwashing and create a sustainable approach that pleases a variety of increasingly interested and mobilized stakeholders are cited.

Justin Trudeau Has Promised a Feminist Economic Recovery. So Where’s the Plan?

In Vice, Sarah Kaplan emphasizes the importance of applying a gender lens to COVID recovery plans.

Pandemic threatens to undo gender equity progress in workforce

Sarah Kaplan is quoted in Benefits Canada about the risk of a mass exodus of women from the workforce.

Men accounted for more than two-thirds of Order of Canada appointments last year

Sarah Kaplan says to the Globe and Mail that the idea of merit itself reinforces privilege and keeps others out

How to make business fix supply chain flaws

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Financial Times about how investors should put pressure on boards to create reporting requirements for social responsibility

How can employers support staff with children during pandemic schooling?

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Benefits Canada about how employers will have to accommodate new care work burdens.

Covid-19 Is Setting Canadian Women in Finance Back by Decades

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Bloomberg BusinessWeek about the long-term impacts of COVID on women’s careers.

360 gradi: oltre la responsabilità sociale dell’impresa

Great review of L’Impresa à 360º in Sviluppo & Organizzazione describing it as a pragmatic approach to combining shareholder and stakeholder interests. See the full review here.