Improving OSU Add TA... with Gender Mag

GenderMag is a method that helps IT product owners find and fix gender biases in technology workflows and interfaces, and even in workplace practices.  The method, created by OSU College of Engineering faculty and Project Co-directors, Dr. Margaret Burnett and Dr. Anita Sarma, is a set of guides and processes for identifying gender biases implicit in IT products including software, web pages, web-based forms, and support protocols. Using GenderMag, IT developers, managers, UX/UI professionals, and other IT professionals find and remediate gender biases in IT products. The outcome that is the IT product aligns with the OSU IT Strategic Plan initiative for gender inclusivity. At its core, the GenderMag method is a gender-specialized developer walk-through using personas that focus on five cognitive factors. The GenderMag method has been used in practice by organizations since 2016, in 45 countries across the world.