Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Gender Equality through Inclusive Design by Google, University of Toronto

Become an expert in gender analysis. Apply inclusive analysis techniques and human-centered design to produce innovative products, services, processes, and policies using intersectoral gender insights.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת בשוויון מגדרי באמצעות עיצוב כוללני של Google

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Examine how policies, products, services and processes impact gender and miss opportunities or create unnecessary risks
  • Breaking norms that continue to exclude when it comes to customer/recipient service
  • To become familiar with concepts such as gender, gender identity, and intersectionality
  • Learn qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to uncover cross-category gender insights
  • Apply human-centered design to create innovative solutions
  • Become a transformational leader

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Business leaders who want to use gender insights to innovate
  • Government professionals and NGOs interested in conducting gender analysis (GBA+)
  • Women’s studies specialists looking for work-related applications
  • Business analysis experts expanding their skills to questions of equality
  • HR professionals interested in becoming partners in business innovation

Internship – a five-part course series

Contemporary conversations about diversity and inclusion often forget that these are not just HR issues, but that they impact how products, services, processes, and policies create different outcomes based on gender, race, ability differences, Indigenous communities, and other cross-category identities. Gender analytics is a methodology that allows you to create opportunities for business or government impact using gender-based insights to design transformative solutions.

In the 5 courses offered by the Institute for Gender and Economics, you will be able to:

  • Examine how policies, products, services and processes impact gender and miss opportunities or create unnecessary risks
  • Breaking norms that continue to exclude when it comes to customer/recipient service
  • To become familiar with concepts such as gender, gender identity, and intersectionality
  • Learn qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to uncover cross-category gender insights
  • Apply human-centered design to create innovative solutions
  • Become a transformational leader

Who is this for?

  • Business leaders who want to use gender insights to innovate
  • Government professionals and NGOs interested in conducting gender analysis (GBA+)
  • Women’s studies specialists looking for work-related applications
  • Business analysis experts expanding their skills to questions of equality
  • HR professionals interested in becoming partners in business innovation

Academic Director: Sarah Kaplan; Project Manager: Lechin Lo; Teaching Advisor: Kim Da Lat

Hands-on Learning Project

You will practice gender analytics skills in a hands-on learning capstone project that will take you through the full process of using gender-based insights to create innovative solutions. You will examine quantitative and qualitative data, apply advanced human-centered design methodologies to develop a prototype, and plan for implementation in an organization, market, or community.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Gender analysis for innovation

Course 1

Duration: 8 hours

Rating: 4.8 (289 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Recognize ways in which policies, products, services, and processes may be gendered in implicit ways.
  • Develop mastery of key concepts of gender analysis.
  • Assess options for using gender analysis to encourage inclusive innovation.
  • Identify opportunities for developing personal and organizational capabilities.

Skills you will acquire

  • Intersectoral analysis
  • Gender-based analysis
  • Business Analytics
  • Innovation
  • Leadership development

Course 2: Inclusive Analytical Techniques

Duration: 8 hours

Rating: 4.8 (75 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Understand the legal and ethical frameworks for data collection and analysis.
  • Examine how quantitative data is produced and identify gender-related data gaps.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand unmet needs.
  • Learn quantitative and qualitative research and analysis techniques.

Skills you will acquire

  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Change management
  • leadership
  • persuasion
  • Organizational culture

Course 3: Human-Centered Design for Inclusive Innovation

Duration: 13 hours

Rating: 4.8 (163 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Acquire tools to see the world as users see it.
  • Identify hidden human needs.
  • Reconstruct problems so that innovative solutions may develop.
  • Learn how to involve users in all stages of design.

Skills you will acquire

  • Change management
  • Analytics
  • Gender-based analysis
  • Innovation
  • Design Thinking

Course 4: Transformational Leadership for Inclusive Innovation

Duration: 8 hours

Rating: 4.8 (87 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • See gender analysis as an opportunity for transformative leadership.
  • Learn to plan resistance and develop strategies.
  • Organize teams that reflect the diversity of customers.
  • Identify the role of gender analysis at every stage of planning.

Skills you will acquire

  • creativity
  • Inclusive innovation
  • Prototype
  • Innovation
  • Design Thinking

Course 5: Gender Analysis Capstone Project

Duration: 9 hours

Rating: 4.8 (10 ratings)

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