Academic Papers

Empowering inclusion with insightful research.

Welcome to the Diversity Atlas Academic Papers repository!

We are delighted to offer you this collection of academic papers on diversity, equity, and inclusion, gathered from reputable sources across the internet. This resource is designed to provide our members with quick access to valuable research that can inform and enhance your DEI initiatives.

Please note that all papers included in this repository have been collected with respect for and in accordance with the rights of the original authors and publishers.

We hope you find this resource useful and enriching. Happy reading!

2022
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Reward Utete
Examining the relationship between employment equity implementation and employee performance at workplace: Evidence from a leading organisation in South Africa
Employment equity has continued to occupy a centre stage in the field of human resource management in the current and forthcoming decades in various countries worldwide. It plays a critical role in promoting the elimination of unfair discrimination and consideration of people from previously disadvantaged groups at the workplace. The paper aims to establish the relationship between employment equity implementation
2022
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga and Adam Poulsen
Diversity and Inclusion in Artificial Intelligence
Discrimination and bias are inherent problems of manyAI applications, as seen in, for instance, face recognition systems not recognizing dark-skinned women and content moderator tools silencing drag queens online. These outcomes may derive from limited datasets that do not fully represent society as a whole or from the AI scientific community’s western-male configuration bias. Although being a pressing issue, understanding
2022
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Preeti S. Chauhan, Nir Kshetri
The Role of Data and Artificial Intelligence in Driving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The year 2020 changed the world landscape in ways more than ever before. One of the differences that came about was the increased push to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at the workplace and in society at large. Data and artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to identify equality gaps and bring them to the forefront. According to U.S.
2021
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MANFRED MANGLICMOT, OLIVIA COTTON, SONIA CHEN and JOANNECRAWFORD
Exploring factors contributing to young workers’ vulnerability to work-related harm
New Zealand has experienced significant increases in youth employment rates in the last 20 years with 40 per cent of people employed part-time. This age group has been associated with the second-highest rate of injury claims. At the current time, there is limited information on why young workers in New Zealand are more vulnerable to work-related harm. This project aimed
2021
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Joan Marques
Exploring Gender at Work: Multiple Perspectives
This collective volume was created through a wonderful collaboration of 39 authors, representing five global continents and a wide range of academic and practical disciplines. It reviews gender from the standpoints of inequality in multiple regards, such as through discrimination, stereotyping, maintaining prejudice through oftentimes longstanding, unconscious biases, industry influences, but also based on cultural, religious, political, and other boundaries.
2021
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Frederick L. Oswald, Gregory Mitchell, Hart Blanton, James Jaccard, Philip E. Tetlock
Predicting ethnic and racial discrimination: A meta-analysis of IAT criterion studies
This article reports a meta-analysis of studies examining the predictive validity of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and explicit measures of bias for a wide range of criterion measures of discrimination. The meta-analysis estimates the heterogeneity of effects within and across 2 domains of intergroup bias (interracial and interethnic), 6 criterion categories (interpersonal behavior, person perception, policy preference, microbehavior, response
2021
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Meraiah Foley and Rae Cooper
Workplace gender equality in the post-pandemic era: Where to next?
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and accelerated many gendered labour market inequalities in Australia and around the world. In this introduction to our special issue, ‘Workplace Gender Equality: Where are we now and where to next?’, we examine the impact of the pandemic on women’s employment, labour force participation, earnings, unpaid care work and experience of gendered violence. We identify five
2021
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Mohammed T. Nuseir , Barween H. Al Kurdi , Muhammad T. Alshurideh , and Haitham M. Alzoubi
Gender Discrimination at Workplace: Do Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Have Opinions About It
The gender discrimination problem started from day one when they entered professional offices, factories, businesses, institutions, and other organizations. Despite strict regulations and laws, gender-based discrimination can be seen in almost all working places. However, its types and gravity may change with the place, sectors, or development level of a country. The complaints and protests of affected women roar severely
2021
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Hyoung Eun Chang,Suyong Jeong
Male Nurses’ Experiences of Workplace Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in South Korea: A Qualitative Study
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore male nurses’ experiences of workplace gender discrimination and sexual harassment in South Korea. Methods: Phenomenological qualitative methodology exploring male nurses’ experiences was employed to collect data, and thematic analysis of the data was conducted. Research subjects were recruited by convenience and snowball sampling. Ten male nurses participated in individual in-depth interviews
2021
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Kim, Pauline T, Bodie, Matthew T
Artificial Intelligence and the Challenges of Workplace Discrimination and Privacy
AI systems have the ability to generate insights that are not accessible based on ordinary human observation, and the more complex systems may generate results that are not fully explainable or understandable, even by their human creators.4 Early efforts at artificial intelligence endeavored to make machines into the equivalent of humans, with the ability to exercise judgment in a variety