Alexandra Kalev 

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology

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3/6/2025

לורם איפסום דולור סיט אמט, קונסקטורר אדיפיסינג אלית קולורס מונפרד אדנדום

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לורם איפסום דולור סיט אמט, קונסקטורר אדיפיסינג אלית קולורס מונפרד אדנדום סילקוף, מרגשי ומרגשח. עמחליף קולהע צופעט למרקוח איבן איף, ברומץ כלרשט מיחוצים. קלאצי נולום ארווס סאפיאן - פוסיליס קוויס, אקווזמן קונסקטורר אדיפיסינג אלית. סת אלמנקום ניסי נון ניבאה. דס איאקוליס וולופטה דיאם. וסטיבולום אט דולור, קראס אגת לקטוס וואל אאוגו וסטיבולום סוליסי טידום בעליק. קונדימנטום קורוס בליקרה, נונסטי קלובר בריקנה סטום, לפריקך תצטריק לרטי.

30/1/2024

What Works in Defeating Workplace Sexual Harassment

HERO Podcast | ​Foreign Policy

Host Reena Ninan speaks with Alexandra Kalev, a Tel Aviv University associate professor of sociology and dean of the sociology and anthropology departments. Kalev and her colleague Frank Dobbin recently wrote a book together called Getting to Diversity. Among other workplace inclusivity topics, Kalev and Dobbin conducted groundbreaking research about how to decrease sexual harassment in the workplace. According to Kalev, most of the well-intentioned programs that they analyzed actually backfired.

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7/1//2023

Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t 

The Next Big Idea Club

Frank Dobbin is a sociologist and Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences and Chair of th Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Alexandra Kalev is a researcher and Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University.
Below, Frank and Alexandra share 5 key insights from their new book, Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t.

The Open Secret of What Works—and What Doesn’t—for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion , by Elizabeth Weingarten, October 16, 2022, Behavioral Scientist

Work-Life Supports That Truly Help Your Organization  , HBR IdeaCast, September 06, 2022

Workplace diversity programmes often fail, or backfire , The Economist, August 25, 2022

How Should Companies Fight Workplace Bias? by Clara Ferreira Marques, Blomberg, December 12, 2021

‘A lot of lip service’: Does mandatory diversity training actually work? , by Ashley Okwuosa, tvom, November 19, 2021

A warning for academia in study of Great Recession-era hiring , by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, The Harvard Gazette, October 20, 2021

When Implicit Bias Training Antagonizes the Workers It’s Supposed to Help , by Amanda Sakuma, VICE, June 28, 2021

Why ineffective diversity training won’t go away , by Zulekha Nathoo, BBC News, June 17, 2021

Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev Explain Why Diversity Training Does Not Work.   The Economist.  May 21, 2021

So your company uses diversity training. Does it even work? , by Poopu Noor, The Guardian, March 10, 2021

2020 Taught Us How to Fix This by David Brooks, The New York Times, December 31, 2020

After 2020, How Do We Move Forward on Race? by Pamela Newkirk, The Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2020

Locked into categoriesby The Editorial Board, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 17, 2020

Do Diversity Training Programs Work? , by Dave Roos, HowStuffWorks, November 5, 2020

Why Are There Still So Few Black CEOs? , by Te-Ping Chen, The Wall Street Journal, September 28, 2020

Walmart Took Its Eye Off Black Managers While Women Advanced , by Matthew Boyle, Bloomberg, September 23, 2020

Podcast: Diversity Training Under Fire, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, September 23, 2020

Can you train people to be less prejudiced? , by Arianne Cohen, BBC News, September 10, 2020

Listen to science, my fellow Democrats: Diversity training does not cure bias and racism , by Jonathan Zimmerman, USA today, September 9, 2020.

Some common diversity initiatives actually decrease diversity, data show, by Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, July 12, 2020

When work moved home during Covid, so did toxic workplace harassment, by Elisa Martinuzzi, The Print, June 17, 2020

What We Need Now Is Courageous Leaders To Establish And Cultivate Real D&I, by Patty Fletcher, Forbes, July 7, 2020

Podcast: When Your Career Is Suddenly on Hold, [Season 5, Episode 5], Women at Work, May 11, 2020

Can you change your unconscious biases?, by Marina Gerner, Raconteur, March 8, 2020

Miuccia Prada Will Be Getting Sensitivity Training, by Vanessa Friedman, The New York Times, February 4, 2020

Sephora closes all US stores for diversity training after racial profiling allegation, by Lauren Aratani, The Guardian, June 5, 2019

Layoffs hit women and minorities hardest. Here’s why, by Julia Carpenter, CNN Business, February 26, 2019

Report Finds Wide but Varying Pay Gaps by Gender, Religion and Background, by Tali Heruti-Sover, Haaretz, February 19, 2019

The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats, by B.S., The Economist, May 8, 2018

#MeToo in the boardroom: It takes more than a ‘symbolic gesture’ to change corporate culture, by Martha C. White, NBC News, January 11, 2018

For Minorities in Science, Building Community Matters, by Lesley Evans Ogden, UNDRAK, November 6, 2017

Hey Tech Giants: How About Action on Diversity, Not Just Reports?, by Davey Alba, Wired, March 31, 2017

Why corporate diversity programs fail, and what to do about it, by Chris MacDonald, Canadian Business, July 8, 2016

To improve diversity, don’t make people go to diversity training. Really.by Jena McGrego r, The Washington Post, July 1, 2016

Forced diversity training backfires, claims Harvard study, by Michelle Leibowitz, Fox News, June 30, 2016

Why So Many Diversity Programs Fail by Lydia Dishman, Fast Company, June 23, 2016.

Here’s Why Workplace Diversity Programs Don’t Work by Dayna Evans, New York Magazine, June 21, 2016.

You Say You Want a Diverse Workforce by L.V. Anderson, Slate, January 21, 2016.

I failed this test on racism and sexism—and so will you, by Valentina Zarya, Fortune, November 10, 2015

Pharmacy offers Arabs career boost, enhanced ties with Jews, By David Shamah, The Times of Israel, 24 August 2015

Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev. “Engaging, Instead of Blaming, Managers” The New York Times, October 29, 2014

 

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