In today’s rapidly evolving work environment, fostering gender diversity and inclusion is more than just a goal — it’s a necessity. As part of our G-VERSITY network, we’re excited to share a comprehensive series of guidelines designed to help organizations and individuals take meaningful steps toward reducing gender biases in educational and professional environments and fostering a more gender-diverse workplace.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Franziska Saxler speaks about her research on sexualized workplace harassment within the academic systems and how participants’ experiences with sexualized workplace harassment affect their self-ascribed agency (e.g. career ambitions and work outcomes).

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Mary Ann Ciosk speaks about her research on the cognitive processes involved in the mental representation of different intersectional social categories such as gender, race and sexual orientation.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Yirou Fang speaks about the relationship between gender and workplace set-backs, focusing specifically on such negative work experience as job burnout, whether women and men differ in their job burnout levels and developing rates and what can help.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Rasika Mahajan speaks about applying the intersectional feminist and postcolonial feminist theories to (gender) diversity trainings for fostering more social inclusion and social equality.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Clara Plückelmann speaks about the potential cause of gender inequality in the workplace and the lack of women in leadership and decision-making positions, stating that it is societal and organizational structures that impact women’s aspirations to apply for these positions.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Ana-Nzinga Weiss speaks about how social discourses are represented in the German traditional media (television, radio and newspapers), in particular, the German media debate about racism. Ana-Nzinga also points out that racist discrimination is always entangled with other structural inequalities and works together with, for instance, sexism and classism.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Shannon O’Rourke speaks about whether LGBQ people’s sexualities have any significant impact on their leadership positions and how LGBQ people are often expected to bring their sexualities into their leadership roles for the sake of diversity, equality and inclusion. Shannon also mentions that at times, gender identity can have a greater impact on leadership experiences compared to sexuality.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Sofia Bracco talks about how trans and gender diverse people are represented in online news media, and whether such representations affect people’s attitudes toward them.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Andrea Kočiš speaks about how child’s gender affects parents’ beliefs and expectations from their children and how gender stereotypes can influence which behaviours parents encourage or discourage in their children.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Tatjana Graf speaks about her research on how gender is being constructed by networking within the context of male-dominated and diversity networks and how networking can foster gender equality (but also cause the reproduction of gender inequality).

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Federica Case speaks about one important factor that cultivates better mentoring relationships in the workplace, which is the similarity of the mentor and mentee on their values and traits.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Kezia Olive speaks about how boys and girls develop different motivational beliefs towards science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and what individual and social factors (e.g. achievement, parents’ beliefs or language skills) can affect them in this.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Hanna D. Szabó speaks about the community-building potential of social media, focusing on how Hungarian queer teenagers negotiate their identities and represent themselves online. Her research underlines that queer youth is well-equipped to leverage the power of social media to explore their sexual and gender identities, but this takes immense emotional labour, which is is further complicated by platform limitations and political realities.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Vladislav Krivoshchekov speaks about diversity communication, about gender diversity in particular, to identify social psychological factors in organisational communication that can affect potential candidates’ attitudes toward the organisation and choices to apply for a job.

In this podcast episode, G-Versity early stage researcher, Serena Haines speaks about men’s underrepresentation in early child education and the reasons why men are less likely to work in women-dominated caring professions.

In this blog post, the author draws on the results from her second study about one’s achievements: even though our achievements influence what we like and find important to us, we are not as simple as “you like what you’re good at”, and this can be insightful in understanding why female students steer away from STEM subjects.

Nowadays, there is increased awareness of diversity issues and organizations often aim to foster inclusivity and attract talent from underrepresented groups. The emphasis on diversity is often underscored both for its potential impact on business performance as well as the ethical responsibility to not incidentally overlook or disadvantage certain groups. However, identity groups are often presented in isolation, rather than acknowledging their intersectionality, hindering the overarching goal of inclusivity.