A few years ago, Astrid Linder, a Swedish engineer, developed the first car crash test dummy based on a woman’s body. Her goal was, in her own words, “to make everyone in cars as well protected as possible.” And to truly include everyone, only male dummies won’t do.
Our Spring 2025 virtual seminar series, Make Work Fair, explored Linder’s inclusionary aspirations and explore what workplaces that work for everyone might look like based on insights from Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi’s book 'Make Work Fair.'
The seminar series was chaired by Bohnet and began with a session with Bohnet and Chilazi on an overview of their book and workplace equity myths they aim to debunk. The remaining sessions, with experts across fields, tied to three overarching ideas from 'Make Work Fair.' Speakers focused on research-based strategies to make fairness “count” at work, make fairness “stick,” and make fairness “normal.” Topics included current bias in algorithmic job recommender systems, salary negotiation and the gender pay gap, the promising future of working from home, and how to overcome barriers to adopting evidence-based improvements.
Find a full list of topics and speakers below.
Missed the live sessions? You can still explore how to build workplaces that work for everyone through recordings of the seminar series on YouTube.
- Make Work Fair Intro and Myths We Need to Debunk with Iris Bohnet & Siri Chilazi
- Diversity Incentives Can Increase Women's Aspirations to Lead with Erika Kirgios
- Setting Up the Gap? Gender Differences in Initial Salary Offers with Shiya Wang
- Pay Transparency, Salary Negotiation & Gender Pay Gap with Ricardo Perez-Truglia
- Measuring Bias in Job Recommender Systems: Auditing Algorithms with Shuo Zhang
- How to Reduce Bias and Discrimination in Hiring with Oliver Hauser
- The Glorious Future of Working from Home with Nicholas Bloom
- Gender Criteria Gap Implications for Labor Market Outcomes with Lata Gangadharan
- Closing Gender Gaps: The Intergenerational Effects of WWI with Abhay Aneja
- Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption with Elizabeth Linos
