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Extensive research shows that when women speak up on behalf of others, they avoid backlash, because they’re being communal.

future. One of the main lessons of behavioral economics is that small changes to the environment we live in matter.

As Welch had done, he attacked the elitism.

The research also reveals ways we can do harm despite our best intentions.

New research reveals that people are more likely to promote diversity and inclusion when the message is more nuanced (and more accurate): “Diversity is good, but it isn’t easy.”[*]

Activating a growth mindset of being a good-ish work-in-progress, not a premade good person; Seeing the ordinary privilege we hold and putting it to good use on behalf of others; Opting for willful awareness, though our minds and lives make willful ignorance more likely; and Engaging the people and systems around us.

Angela Davis (1943–present) spent the next four decades opposing the racial discriminators who learned to hide their intent, denouncing those who promoted end-of-racism fairytales while advocating bipartisan tough-on-crime policies and a prison-industrial complex that engineered the mass incarceration, beatings, and killings of Black people by law

employees have trouble committing to a decision when they perceive the process as unfair.