Katica Roy

Executive

Future CEOs, erased: the economic cost of losing Black women in the workforce

Black women are disproportionately affected by pay gaps, workplace bias, and the erosion of DEI initiatives.

Attacks on DEI assume a level playing field where none exists—and threaten America’s future prosperity

SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 03: A customer walks by a now hiring sign posted in front of Target store on November 03, 2023 in Sausalito, California. According to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job growth slowed in October with a total of 150,000 new jobs added compared to analyst expectations of 180,000. The unemployment rate inched up to 3.9% from 3.8%. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Immigration, productivity, inflation: Why finding the pandemic’s ‘missing women’ could be the solution to almost every challenge facing the U.S. economy today

TOPSHOT – US President Joe Biden addresses striking members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union at a picket line outside a General Motors Service Parts Operations plant in Belleville, Michigan, on September 26, 2023. Some 5,600 members of the UAW walked out of 38 US parts and distribution centers at General Motors and Stellantis at noon September 22, 2023, adding to last week’s dramatic worker walkout. According to the White House, Biden is the first sitting president to join a picket line. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden’s historic stand with UAW members shows how far labor activism has come in America. True equal pay should be next on his agenda

Women’s workforce participation hasn’t recovered since the pandemic–but men want to spend more time with their families.

These 5 gender equity events impacted the U.S. economy in 2022. Addressing them in 2023 could unlock a $3.1 trillion opportunity

MIAMI, FLORIDA – DECEMBER 03: A Now Hiring sign hangs in front of a Winn-Dixie grocery store on December 03, 2021 in Miami, Florida. The Labor Department announced that payrolls increased by just 210,000 for November, which is below what economists expected, though the unemployment rate fell to 4.2% from 4.6%. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

U.S. policymakers have one last chance to avoid a recession: Find the 1.5 million women who vanished from our workforce

A worker packages cast iron cookware at the Lodge Manufacturing Co. factory in South Pittsburg, Tennessee, U.S., on Monday, March 7, 2022. Production at U.S. factories rose modestly in January, suggesting manufacturers are gradually working through pandemic-related shortages of materials and labor that hobbled output in the prior month. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

More than a million women have left the workforce. The Fed needs to consider them as it defines ‘full employment’

Woman in a store reaching for a product on the top shelf.

The recession is already here—if you’re a woman

A working mother multitasks with her infant daughter in her home office

From equal pay to more paternity leave, here are 5 ways business leaders can fight for gender equity

Portrait of apprentice engineering worker young woman working, examining and operating CNC plastic injection molding machinery in factory warehouse after studied manufacturing apprenticeship program certifies XXXL

The upskilling revolution will fail if women are left behind

By Katica Roy and Christie Smith

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3 women in Biden’s cabinet are going to boost the post-COVID recovery

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Want to step up as a stakeholder capitalist? Start by measuring up on diversity

“Without the right metrics,” writes Katica Roy, “diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts become empty promises.”

Better use of technology can help us close racial and gender gaps at work

WILMINGTON, DE – NOVEMBER 24: (L) Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Director of National Intelligence nominee Avril Haines, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate nominee John Kerry, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations nominee Linda Thomas-Greenfield listen as President-elect Joe Biden introduces them and other key foreign policy and national security nominees and appointments depart the state at the Queen Theatre on November 24, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. As President-elect Biden waits to receive official national security briefings, he is announcing the names of top members of his national security team to the public. Calls continue for President Trump to concede the election as the transition proceeds. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)

In tackling the country’s biggest problems, Biden and Harris need to prioritize gender and racial equity

Canadians rally in Toronto on ‘Equal Pay Day’ in April 2019. Canada’s 2018 Pay Equity Act represents a blueprint that U.S. policymakers could learn from.

American capitalism needs equal-pay legislation. Canada is showing us how to make it work