Book Reviews

Times Literary Supplement: Bias cut: How to Best Achieve Diversity in the Workplace

Financial Times: Business Books

Forbes: Book Club

Civil Engineering: Is It Possible to Eliminate Implicit Bias in the Workplace?

5 Star Review from Top 1000 Amazon Reviewer

Association for Talent Development: Book Capsules

Fortune: 5 New Books to Read in November

Charter: The Small Tweaks that Produce More Inclusive Workplaces

Book Excerpts, Articles, and Interviews

Bias Interrupted offers a fresh approach to inclusion that is concrete, evidenced-based and actionable. Whether you are an individual seeking to be a better ally, the head of HR, or the CEO, this book provides concrete steps you can take starting tomorrow to ensure that you and those around you can all do your best work together. Written as the answers to questions you may have been afraid to ask, the book proposes that businesses treat inclusion the way they'd treat any business problem: with evidence, metrics and persistence.

Why Corporate Diversity Programs Fail — and How Small Tweaks Can Have Big Impact

Praise for White Working Class

"I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class."

President Joe Biden

"Joan C. Williams has an uncanny knack for striking at the core of complicated issues, first gender and now class. No one should have an excuse for ‘class cluelessness’ after reading this book―and everyone should read it."

Anne-Marie Slaughter

President and CEO, New America

"Joan C. Williams has written an urgently needed Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus for the professional elite and the white working class, only better. Each chapter illuminates a core source of misunderstanding, and together they chart a way to bring the country together without abandoning the values of the minorities in the coalition. Read this highly important book and let’s get to it."

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Author, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

"In this blunt, compelling, tightly argued manifesto, Joan C. Williams sets out to truly understand the white working class, whose raw anger was so evident during the recent presidential race."

Tony Schwartz

The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working; CEO, The Energy Project

In 2018, in the middle of the Trump era, Biden — who favors biographies and volumes on comparative religion — became obsessed with...“White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America,” by Joan C. Williams. He carried [it] everywhere, scrawling notes on the pages and pulling out well-worn copies to share passages.