Awardee
The Shift Project
Reducing Gender Inequality with Schedules that Work
Provide high quality work schedules at scale for millions of women working hourly jobs through a novel collaboration with a leading work scheduling software provider.
Millions of hourly women workers face chaotic employer-driven schedules that undermine earnings, caregiving, and advancement. We will collaborate with scheduling-software provider Deputy to test and scale innovative changes that optimize schedules by combining best-practice defaults with cutting edge technology that harmonizes worker and business needs. Moving beyond city-by-city policies or single-firm approaches, we reach thousands of employers across industries and regions to improve advancement, economic mobility, and wellbeing, and close gender gaps in hourly work.
Primary Barrier
Inflexible Workplaces
Location
Massachusetts
Solution Region
Nation-wide
Community Type
Urban
Annual Operating Budget
$1.0 to 5 Million
Partners
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Deputy: The Complete People Platform for Hourly Work
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The Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University
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Barnard College
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The Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard SPH
