A recent article in PNAS investigated the efficacy of a short evidence-based diversity training about women at work. The authors show that the diversity training successfully produced attitude change, but not behavior change, among employees whose average untreated attitudes were relatively less supportive of women than other groups. On the other hand, the training resulted in behavior change among employees whose average untreated attitudes were already strongly supportive of women. These results denote the limited efficacy of diversity training, especially among those groups whose behaviors policymakers are most eager to influence.
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