Joan C. Williams

In today's competitive hiring market, you can't risk excluding or alienating talented employees—regardless of their gender, race, class, or physical ability. Bias can seep into the deepest corners of your workplace and hinder both the success of the people who hold marginalised identities and your organisation as a whole. What sort of hiring procedures, employee development programs, and personnel policies...

What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace? If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today—and how far we...

Seize this moment to advance racial justice at your organisation. In the wake of widespread anti-racism demonstrations across the world, many companies have spoken out forcefully. They've made unprecedented commitments to equity and launched ad campaigns and task forces to counter racism, especially anti-Black racism. But now comes the real test—harnessing the energy of this moment to further and sustain...

It's time to understand what so many people don't get about the Working Class... Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite—journalists, managers, and establishment politicians—are on the outside looking in, left to argue over the reasons why. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, described as "something approaching rock star...

An enlightening and vivid portrait of the stunning successes of populist movements, and what we need to know about how this transformative shift in politics affects our lives. Helps the reader understand this crucial demographic. Sheds light on the 2016 U.S. election. Helps the reader understand larger global trends around white working class anger. Makes a powerful argument about the...

A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion. Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often, diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about 'privilege.' That's not enough. To truly make progress, we need to stop celebrating the problem and instead take effective steps to solve it....

Reinvent your organisation for the hybrid age. Hybrid work is here to stay—but what will it look like at your company? If your organisation is holding on to inflexible, pre-pandemic policies about where—and when—your people work, it may be risking a mass exodus of talent. Designing a hybrid workplace that furthers your business goals while staying true to your culture...