Kinsey-Kelley Center for Gender Equity in Business

Providing a platform for teaching and learning to achieve gender equity and create healthier workplace environments

Through research, education, and training the center focuses on addressing workplace structures, practices, and policies that limit both individual and organizational performance.

The center provides organizations with research-based training, identification of equity issues, and specific guidance on interventions through its outreach efforts.

Our vision and mission

Through cutting-edge research, training, and education, the Kinsey-Kelley Center for Gender Equity in Business equips current and future business leaders to create organizational cultures and to instill individual behaviors that advance gender equity in all business operations and promote safe and healthy working environments free from sexual misconduct, harassment, and discrimination.

The Kinsey-Kelley Center for Gender Equity in Business will be the premier academic producer and source of research and teaching resources and the provider of choice for training related to gender equity and nondiscrimination in business.

Areas of research and education include:

gender bias in hiring and promotion
sexual harassment and misconduct
workplace relationships
power differentials
pay inequities

Our partnership with the Kinsey Institute

The Kinsey Institute is a leader in scientific knowledge and research on issues of sexuality, gender, and reproduction. Founded in 1947, the Kinsey Institute has initiated and led an extensive array of scientific investigations related to human sexuality. With an interdisciplinary faculty and staff, the institute has become a trusted source for primary research, education, data archiving and source documents, and media expertise.

Through our partnership with the Kinsey Institute, faculty from the Kelley School will work alongside colleagues from the Kinsey Institute to develop and apply research-based approaches to long-standing gender inequity issues in the workplace.

Featured Researchers

Sara Cochran

Clinical Assistant Professor

Cochran, S. L. (2021). Creating a space for women entrepreneurs. Rutgers Business Review, 6(2), 161-167.

Cochran, S. L. (2019). What’s gender got to do with it? The experiences of U.S. women entrepreneurship students.
Journal of Small Business Management, 57(S1), 111-129.

Jorge Mejia

Associate Professor
Grant Thornton Scholar

Murphy M. C., Mejia A. F., Mejia J., Yan X., Cheryan S., Dasgupta N., Destin M., Fryberg S. A., Garcia J. A., Haines E. L., Harackiewicz J. M., Ledgerwood A., Moss-Racusin C. A., Park L. E., Perry S. P., Ratliff K. A., Rattan A., Sanchez D. T., Savani K., . . . Pestilli F. (2020). Open science, communal culture, and women’s participation in the movement to improve science

Tomasz Obloj

Associate Professor

Obloj, T., and Zenger, T. (2022).The influence of pay transparency on (gender) inequity, inequality and the performance basis of pay. Nature Human Behaviour, VOL 6 646, May 2022, 646–655.

Chelsea Song

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Meet the director

April Sellers

Pam Meyer Yttri Director of the Kinsey-Kelley Center for Gender Equity in Business and Clinical Professor
kkcgeb@iu.edu

Professor Sellers spent 16 years as a trial lawyer representing businesses, governments and individuals in disputes before federal and state courts as a partner with the law firm of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP. She has written briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as a variety of U.S. District Courts and state courts. She focused on the defense of a major class action; the defense of medical devices in multidistrict litigation; franchise law; and Constitutional challenges to local laws. She has counseled clients in a wide variety of contract, regulatory and product liability disputes.

Professor Sellers also served as Deputy Chief of Staff to former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, and served as counsel to the Marion County Election Board and the Indianapolis Ethics Commission. She is experienced in advising elected officials on legal and ethical matters.

Professor Sellers teaches law and ethics to undergraduate and MBA students. Her areas of expertise include legal and ethical issues in the modern workplace; Constitutional law; and how businesses can write better contracts. She has won several awards for teaching, including the Kelley School of Business Elvin S. Eyster Teaching Scholar Award and Indiana University Trustees Teaching Awards.

Support a bold initiative for thriving workplaces

The Kinsey-Kelley Center for Gender Equity in Business focuses the influence and expertise of the Kinsey Institute and the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University on issues arising from gender inequity in the workplace. Your gift will support this impactful work.

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Our Supporters

Holly McKenzie

"As a business leader whose gender is not well represented in the boardroom or the c-suite, I want to work alongside those that endeavor not only to figure out why, but how to create a new norm. The collective research forces of Kinsey and Kelley provides hope that we might literally change the faces of business."

Carolyn Valentine

"I support the Kelley-Kinsey Center for simple reasons. Gender equity is incredibly important to achieve so that the value that every individual brings to work environments is recognized and rewarded. Achieving gender equity would be another tangible example of leaders in business delivering on the fundamental expectations of their workforce. The Kelley School combined with Kinsey are well-equipped to lead the charge forward towards this meaningful goal."

Anton Vincent

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News & Events

Group of women standing and smiling together at the annual Women in Business Leaders Conference — Women in Business leaders at the group’s annual conference

Kelley Ethics Case Competition, sponsored by PWC

Group of speakers at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business

(left to right) April Sellers, Clinical Professor at Kelley and director of the Kinsey-Kelley Center; Justin Garcia, Kinsey Institute Director; Lee Weeks, Associate Instructor and PhD Candidate, Indiana University Associate Instructor and PhD Candidate, Indiana University; Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow, Clinical Assistant Professor and Academy of Law Fellow, Indiana University; Speaking at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business

In the news

Sex and business: New Kinsey-Kelley collaboration to tackle gender equity in the workplace, The Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind., August 1, 2022
Indiana’s Kinsey-Kelley Center Hopes To Move The Needle On Workplace Inequities, Poets&Quants, July 8, 2022
IU launches new center on gender inequity in business, Inside Indiana Business, June 29, 2022
IU establishes Kinsey-Kelley Center for Gender Equity in Business, News at IU Bloomington, June 28, 2022

Gender Equity in Business Blog

Corporate Gender Equity: Progress & Barriers

The Women in the Workplace 2024 report reveals modest gains in women’s representation across corporate levels. While entry-level positions have seen improvements, fewer women—especially women of color—advance to management, a phenomenon known as the “broken rung.” Although supportive policies like flexible work arrangements and parental benefits have increased, many key initiatives aimed at boosting women’s... Read more »

Gender gains and gaps in the US

This article highlights both progress and challenges for U.S. women in the workforce. Women now make up 47% of the labor force and outnumber men in the college-educated workforce. However, gender gaps persist in top-paying jobs and leadership roles, and the gender pay gap remains stuck, with women earning 82 cents for every dollar men... Read more »

Towards Victory: Gender Equality in Football

In the spirit of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, UNESCO’s Call to Action for gender equality in football emphasizes the need to close persistent gender gaps. Despite its global popularity, women remain underrepresented, with 95% of coaches and 91% of referees being men. The lack of media coverage and financial investment for women’s... Read more »

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Contact

April Sellers
Pam Meyer Yttri Director of the Kinsey-Kelley Center for Gender Equity in Business
Clinical Professor
kkcgeb@iu.edu

“The partnership between the Kinsey Institute and the Kelley School of Business will strengthen organizations by addressing gender equity, sexual misconduct and sexual harassment to make our workplaces safer and more equitable.”

Pamela WhittenPresident, Indiana University