Talks and speeches

How diversity makes more teams more innovative - Rocio Lorezo

How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace - Janet Stovall

Melinda Briana Epler - Three ways to be a better ally in the workplace

The danger of a single story - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Research

Unconscious bias

What is unconscious bias?

Unconscious biases are underlying attitudes and stereotypes about various social and identity groups stemming from the tendency to organise social worlds by categorising.

The Royal Society has developed a short video that provides a simple explanation of unconscious bias.

Understanding your own unconscious bias

To understand your unconscious beliefs and stereotypes about gender roles in the workplace, take the quiz created by Harvard University.

Take the quiz

Building inclusion in your workplace

Inclusive leadership

What separates a great manager from a mediocre one?

According to Catalyst’s global report, Getting Real About Inclusive Leadership, building an inclusive team culture is key.

Take Catalyst's interactive quiz as a starting point for considering what strengths and areas of opportunity you have as a leader for building workplaces that work.

Take the quiz

The power of language

Language is important when it comes to creating inclusive workplaces. Research demonstrates that inclusive cultures are high performing cultures – they deliver greater performance and productivity.

The Diversity Council of Australia (DCA) #WordsAtWork campaign seeks to harness the power of language and assist workplaces become more inclusive and productive.

Read DCA's Words at Work overview

Recruitment

The Gender Decoder tool was inspired by a research paper, Evidence That Gendered Wording in Job Advertisements Exists and Sustains Gender Inequality.

The results from the paper showed that women felt that job adverts with masculine-coded language were less appealing and that they belonged less in those occupations.

To ensure that your job advertisements are inclusive of women use this tool to check the words in your ad.

Find out more about the Gender Decoder tool

Glossary of terms

We encounter diversity and inclusion terms everyday in our working lives.

Work180 has provided a reference point for the definitions and best practice recommendations for some common terminology.

Glossary of key terms