Just the Facts, Ma’am

Author Marja Monteiro
A New Gender Gap Tracker Will Reveal Some Hard Truths

Why It Matters

It’s no longer enough to pay lip service to diversity—meaningful measures to track, weigh, and address inequities are happening all around us. Here we look at an example in news media and its parallels. How the world of impact in Canada applies measurement and transparency to its work will become a larger, looming question in 2019.

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