University of Toronto
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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4.8

(426 reviews)

Beginner level

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1 month at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers

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

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

Diversity and Inclusion, Diversity Awareness, Social Justice, Innovation, Human Centered Design, Risk Mitigation, Case Studies, Analysis, Leadership Development, Workplace inclusivity, Product Development, and Business Analytics

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

Data Collection, Stakeholder Engagement, Regression Analysis, Data Ethics, Probability, Qualitative Research, Correlation Analysis, Business Analytics, Diversity and Inclusion, Research, Surveys, Focus Group, Analytical Skills, Stakeholder Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Quantitative Research, Statistical Methods, and Data Analysis

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

Human Centered Design, Design Thinking, Ideation, Design Research, Creativity, User Feedback, Interviewing Skills, Innovation, User Experience Design, Product Design, Prototyping, User Research, Needs Assessment, Product Testing, Diversity and Inclusion, Storytelling, and Qualitative Research

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

Diversity and Inclusion, Organizational Change, Change Management, Leadership, Team Management, Workplace inclusivity, Advocacy, Influencing, Innovation, and Stakeholder Management

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

Quantitative Research, Data Analysis, Analysis, Human Centered Design, Qualitative Research, Storytelling, Design Thinking, Analytics, Systems Thinking, Complex Problem Solving, Diversity and Inclusion, Strategic Communication, Stakeholder Analysis, Innovation, Data Storytelling, Change Management, and Stakeholder Engagement

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Instructors

Sarah Kaplan
University of Toronto
6 Courses26,778 learners
Karen Sihra, PhD
University of Toronto
1 Course5,021 learners
Chanel Grenaway
University of Toronto
1 Course5,021 learners
Brian Silverman
University of Toronto
1 Course5,021 learners

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