Suggested Reading

Education is important, and during these times we don’t always know the right thing to say or do. AUTM’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee encourages you to read the literature highlighted here, along with many other sources, to help with understanding and awareness. If you have articles, books or recordings you’d like added to this list, which will remain accessible on autm.net, please share it with us. 

Articles and Papers

• Collecting Legal Sex Data from University Inventors (AUTM Women Inventors Special Interest Group) and accompanying Tip Sheet for TTOs
• Dear CEOs: Your Silence Is Deafening (Sesha Joi Moon, PhD)
• Diversity and Inclusion Efforts That Really Work (Harvard Business Review)
• How Microaggressions Can Affect Wellbeing in the Workplace (Forbes)
• How To Combat Racism At Work (Forbes)
• Inventions and Inequality: Class Gaps In Patenting (Richard V. Reeves and Nathan Joo)
• Justice in June: Becoming an Active Ally in 10, 25, or 45 Minutes a Day (Compiled by Autumn Gupta and Bryanna Wallace)
• Lost Einsteins: The US May Have Missed Out on Millions of Inventors (MIT Management, Sloan School)
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice (Corinne Shutack)
• US Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism (Harvard Business Review)
• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not (Danielle Cadet)
• A Practical Guide to Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession (Intellectual Property Owners' Association)
• Racism Impoverishes the Whole Economy (The New York Times)
• Violence and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Patents, 1870 - 1940 (Lisa D. Cook)
• Addressing gender and racial disparities in the U.S. labor market to boost wages and power innovation (Lisa D. Cook)
• Measuring the Impact of Ventures Led by Women and People of Color (NC State Poole College of Management)
• A Hidden Hurdle in Efforts to Diversify Boardrooms (The New York Times)
• Shifting Perspectives: A Victim-Centered Account of Microaggressions in Medicine, and Beyond (International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Blog)
• Does LGBT inclusion promote national innovative capacity? (University of Otago)
• Stakeholder engagement and firms' innovation: Evidence from LGBT-supportive policies
• National call for innovations to tackle LGBT health inequalities (Digital Health)
• How One Social Enterprise is Scaling Faster Than The Rest (Insights by Stanford Business)
• 5 Ways Technology Has Positively Impacted the LGBTQ Community (Progress)
• Out and Proud: Our Experiences as LGBTQ+ Social Entrepreneurs (School for Social Entrepreneurs)
• How LGBT+ scientists would like to be included and welcomed in STEM workplaces (Nature)
• Systemic inequalities for LGBTQ professionals in STEM (Science)
• 20 Books to Read for Hispanic Heritage Month (Business Insider)
• Supporting Equity and Inclusion of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals in Professional Organizations (Frontiers in Education)
• The Black Innovators Who Elevated the United States: Reassessing the Golden Age of Invention (Brookings)

Books

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram X. Kendi)
• How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X Kendi)
• White Fragility. Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin Diangelo)
• So You Want to Talk About Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
• Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
• How to be an Inclusive Leader (Jennifer Brown)
• We Can’t Talk About That at Work! (Mary-Frances Winters)

• 10 Books to Help Children Celebrate Diversity in STEM

Journals

• Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation (Quarterly Journal of Economics)

Tests

• Harvard Implicit Bias: Take a Test
• Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit