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Gender Analytics: Gender Equity through Inclusive Design Specialization

University of Toronto

Gender Analytics: Gender Equity through Inclusive Design Specialization

Become an Expert in Gender-Based Analysis.

Apply inclusive analytic techniques and human-centred design to generate innovative products, services, processes and policies using intersectional gender-based insights.

Sarah Kaplan
Karen Sihra, PhD
Chanel Grenaway

Instructors: Sarah Kaplan

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What you'll learn

  • Examine how policies, products, services & processes have gendered outcomes that miss out on opportunities or create needless risks

  • Get comfortable with concepts such as sex, gender, gender identity & intersectionality; and how seeing through these lenses can lead to innovation

  • Learn qualitative & quantitative analytical techniques to uncover intersectional gender-based insights, paying special attention to unheard voices

  • Use human-centred design to create innovative solutions that will help you become a transformational leader

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Specialization - 5 course series

Gender Analytics for Innovation

Gender Analytics for Innovation

Course 1, 8 hours

What you'll learn

  • Recognize ways in which policies, products, services and processes might be implicitly gendered, thus creating inequitable impact

  • Develop fluency in key concepts of Gender Analytics, including language associated with sex, gender, gender identity and intersectionality.

  • Evaluate options for using Gender Analytics to spur inclusive innovation, especially in areas not often considered gendered

  • Identify opportunities to build personal and organizational capabilities to conduct intersectional Gender Analytics effectively

Skills you'll gain

Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Diversity Awareness
Category: Gap Analysis
Category: Social Justice
Category: Product Development
Category: Innovation
Category: Financial Inclusion
Category: Organizational Effectiveness
Category: Workplace inclusivity
Category: Diversity Equity and Inclusion Initiatives
Category: Analysis
Category: Business Analytics
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Risk Mitigation
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Market Opportunities
Inclusive Analytic Techniques

Inclusive Analytic Techniques

Course 2, 8 hours

What you'll learn

  • Understand legal & ethical frameworks for collecting, storing, analyzing, and disseminating data to reduce vulnerabilities for marginalized people.

  • Examine how quantitative data is produced, identify gender-related data gaps; & use analytics skills to uncover intersectional gender-based insights

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gain an in-depth understanding of unmet needs using community-based and ethnographic research methods

  • Learn quantitative & qualitative research and analysis techniques; explore how to integrate insights from both types of data to generate insight.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Collection
Category: Correlation Analysis
Category: Qualitative Research
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Regression Analysis
Category: Probability & Statistics
Category: Research
Category: Stakeholder Analysis
Category: Statistical Inference
Category: Data Synthesis
Category: Community Outreach
Category: Focus Group
Category: Statistical Analysis
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Business Analytics
Category: Analytical Skills
Category: Quantitative Research
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Analytics
Category: Research Methodologies
Human-Centered Design for Inclusive Innovation

Human-Centered Design for Inclusive Innovation

Course 3, 13 hours

What you'll learn

  • Acquire tools for seeing the world as your users & stakeholders see it, with particular attention to marginalized or silent voices.

  • Identify latent human needs, looking beyond obvious patterns in quantitative and qualitative data to understand underlying drivers and motivations.

  • Reframe problems such that innovative and inclusive solutions may emerge through problem finding and not just problem solving.

  • Learn how to involve users & stakeholders in all stages of design—from ideating to prototyping and testing—& bring a learning mindset to the process.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Human Centered Design
Category: Design Thinking
Category: Ideation
Category: Diversity Awareness
Category: Empathy
Category: Innovation
Category: Prototyping
Category: User Research
Category: Design Research
Category: Qualitative Research
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Creativity
Category: Product Testing
Category: User Feedback
Transformational Leadership for Inclusive Innovation

Transformational Leadership for Inclusive Innovation

Course 4, 8 hours

What you'll learn

  • See Gender Analytics as an opportunity for transformational leadership, finding ways to be inspired and inspire others with gender-based insights

  • Learn how to plan for resistance and develop strategies for overcoming opposition

  • Organize teams that reflect the diversity of customers and stakeholders and make these differences matter in your work

  • Identify the role of Gender Analytics at each stage of planning and operations in a variety of different kinds of organizations

Skills you'll gain

Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Leadership
Category: Change Management
Category: Business Transformation
Category: Diversity Awareness
Category: Influencing
Category: Team Management
Category: Overcoming Objections
Category: Stakeholder Management
Category: Drive Engagement
Category: Cultural Diversity
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Stakeholder Engagement
Category: Innovation
Category: Diversity Equity and Inclusion Initiatives
Category: Thought Leadership
Category: Advocacy
Category: Workplace inclusivity
Gender Analytics Capstone Project

Gender Analytics Capstone Project

Course 5, 9 hours

What you'll learn

  • Learn how to assess and integrate qualitative and quantitative insights about the needs of stakeholders, customers or beneficiaries

  • Explore approaches for reframing problem statements to get beyond traditional ways of thinking about an issue

  • Practice developing multiple ideas and approaches to the problem, iterating on the problem statement, and choosing one idea to prototype

  • Strategize about the organizational impact for making the idea come to life

Skills you'll gain

Category: Quantitative Research
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Qualitative Research
Category: Human Centered Design
Category: Innovation
Category: Complex Problem Solving
Category: Design Thinking
Category: Analytics
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Strategic Communication
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Storytelling
Category: Social Impact
Category: Stakeholder Analysis
Category: Change Management
Category: Ideation
Category: Persuasive Communication
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Diversity Awareness

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Instructors

Sarah Kaplan
University of Toronto
6 Courses32,424 learners
Karen Sihra, PhD
University of Toronto
1 Course6,326 learners

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