Think Diverse

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THINK DIVERSE is a fresh and deep look at the issues surrounding diversity and inclusion. The host is Catherine De Vries, Professor of Political Science and Dean for International Affairs at Bocconi University, Milan. In every episode, she picks the brain of one of her Bocconi colleagues about their research about diversity and inclusion topics. Because we all need to understand how diversity manifests itself in our daily lives, our society and our economy.

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#10 - The Long Way to Good Jobs for Women

Apr 04 2022 16 mins

Thomas Le Barbanchon, Associate Professor at Bocconi University's Department of Economics, has focussed his research on a little-known aspect of gender pay gap. Commuting time may explain part of this gap, as women are less willing to commute. This is because the hidden cost of commuting is higher on average for a woman than for a man, by a quantifiable amount. And since women look

#9 - Life After #metoo

Mar 28 2022 29 mins

It has been five years since the #metoo movement has become viral. In these years, the #metoo has been urging society to confront issues of sexual harassment in the workplace, a type of sex-based and gender-based harassment, which goes from verbal remarks to physical and sexual assault.Silvia Cinque, Lecturer in Organization and HRM and Deputy Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at SD

#8 - The All-Male Ballot List

Mar 24 2022 23 mins

Even though the number of women in politics has been increasing, the proportion of female candidates is still low.There is a surprising link between the gender pay gap and voter bias against women, says Julien Sauvagnat, Associate Professor at Bocconi University, to host Catherine De Vries. This, in turn, translates into parties presenting fewer female candidates in areas where wom

#7 - The Demographic Enigma

Mar 15 2022 25 mins

All over Europe, the average number of children desired by a couple is around two, but the realized fertility is usually lower and, in the case of Southern countries, much lower – which led demographers to coin the term “lowest low fertility rate” when it plunges under 1.3 children per woman.In the seventh episode of the THINK DIVERSE podcast series, Letizia Mencarini, Full P

#6 - The Opinionated Machine, with Luca Trevisan

Mar 07 2022 25 mins

We are wary of Artificial Intelligences for all the wrong reasons. The chance of one of them taking control of the world, as in a Hollywood movie, is thin, but they can still hurt large chunks of the humankind (i.e. women) or minorities (according to ethnicity, sexual preferences and so on) through the so-called algorithmic bias.Luca Trevisan, professor of Computer Science at Bocco

#5 - Living in European Shantytowns, with Simone Cremaschi

Feb 28 2022 19 mins

Simone Cremaschi, a Post-Doc Research fellow at Bocconi, has spent time in a shantytown inhabited by West African farmworkers in Apulia, Southern Italy, during the harvest season. In the fifth episode of the THINK DIVERSE podcast series, he sheds light on this largely invisible and often misunderstood reality.“Shantytowns are real towns, built of cardboard and plastic, where thou

#4 - The Dark Side of Flexibility, with Luisa Gagliardi

Feb 21 2022 17 mins

Why is it so difficult for women to pursue a fulfilling career?Firms often require a temporal flexibility which is different from the one that employees (and women in particular) are willing to offer. This has profound implications on women's career prospects.Luisa Gagliardi, assistant professor at the Department of Management and Technology of Bocconi University, has researched th

#2 - The Other Half of the Pandemic, with Paola Profeta

Feb 14 2022 24 mins

Paola Profeta, Full Professor of Public Economics and Director of Bocconi’s AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality, tells host Catherine De Vries how women have been on the frontline in the fight on COVID, because of their overrepresentation in hospital and care jobs, but have also suffered more in terms of job losses and restrictive measures that have put a strain on family relatio

#1 - The Surprising Truth About Poverty, with Zachary Parolin

Feb 14 2022 24 mins

Effective government support can reduce poverty rates even in the thick of a pandemic, when unemployment rates reach a record high. In the first episode of the Think Diverse podcast series, Zachary Parolin tells the story of how poverty rates in the US dropped to a record low in 2020, lifting three million Americans above the poverty line.Dr Parolin, an Assistant Professor at Bocco

#3 - Sickness As a Family Issue, with Nicoletta Balbo

Feb 14 2022 23 mins

Touched by a very personal experience, Nicoletta Balbo, Assistant Professor at Bocconi’s Department of Social and Political Sciences, started to look at the social impact of disease and disability. She soon discovered that there is very little research on how families are influenced by the presence of one or more member with disabilities. The first problem is marginalization, whe