What works in United States of America
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Quality scores are 0–100 rubric scores; “strong evidence” reflects study design; adoptions count documented replications elsewhere. Know more
Evidence snapshot for United States of America
The evidence shows that the United States has implemented several significant workplace and social interventions. Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (2021) generated 1,747 pay-discrimination complaints by October 2024, establishing mandatory salary transparency across the state. Coaching Boys Into Men, a cluster-randomized trial across 16 US high schools with 2,006 athletes, found that the intervention prevented approximately 85 dating-abuse incidents, 48 sexual-harassment incidents, and 20 sexual-assault incidents per 1,000 athletes at 12-month follow-up. The U.S. Web Design System and Seeing AI demonstrate investments in digital accessibility, though the evidence provided quantifies only Seeing AI's early adoption (3+ million tasks completed in its first six months) and does not measure broader government-wide accessibility outcomes.
Drawn from: Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (2021) — Mandatory Salary Transparency and Pay Equity · work2future · Coaching Boys Into Men — Athlete-Coach Delivered Dating Violence Prevention · U.S. Web Design System — Institutionalising WCAG-Tested Components Across Federal Government · Seeing AI — Microsoft's Real-Time AI Visual Assistant for Blind and Low-Vision Users · GoodMaps — Camera-Based Indoor Wayfinding for Blind and Low-Vision Travelers · Universal Design for Learning — CAST's Framework for Inclusive Digital Curricula · Project Euphonia — Training Speech Recognition on Atypical Speech Through Co-Designed Data Collection
Generated from this place's cited practices only. Always check the linked sources.
Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +18 pts 66 here · 48 average
Evaluation evidence +9 pts 58 here · 49 average
Impact on gender equality +9 pts 79 here · 70 average
Documented learning +9 pts 83 here · 74 average
Weaknesses
Achievement / evidence -8 pts 79 here · 87 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -8 pts 40 here · 48 average
Efficiency -10 pts 21 here · 32 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -13 pts 14 here · 27 average
Equity & inclusion -14 pts 35 here · 50 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -28 pts 61 here · 89 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: United States of America. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (2021) — Mandatory Salary Transparency and Pay Equity · 100
work2future · 100
Coaching Boys Into Men — Athlete-Coach Delivered Dating Violence Prevention · 96
U.S. Web Design System — Institutionalising WCAG-Tested Components Across Federal Government · 96
Seeing AI — Microsoft's Real-Time AI Visual Assistant for Blind and Low-Vision Users · 96
GoodMaps — Camera-Based Indoor Wayfinding for Blind and Low-Vision Travelers · 96
Universal Design for Learning — CAST's Framework for Inclusive Digital Curricula · 96
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in United States of America concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
- Washington, D.C. · 22
- Washington · 15
- Sacramento · 14
- Boston · 13
- New York · 13
- New York City · 13
- San Francisco · 10
- Pittsburgh · 9
- Mountain View · 8
- Denver · 7
- Chicago · 6
- Los Angeles · 6
- San José · 6
- Seattle · 6
- Cambridge · 5
- Houston · 5
- Redmond · 5
- Austin · 4
- Chattanooga · 4
- Richmond · 4
- Stanford · 4
- Cupertino · 3
- Honolulu · 3
- Olympia · 3
- Salt Lake City · 3
- San Diego · 3
- Trenton · 3
- Santa Fe · 2
- Dunkirk · 1
- Hanover · 1
- Vienna · 1
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 3 other places
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 4 other places
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Serbia's 40% Electoral Gender Quota — From One-in-Three to Near-Parity Party Lists (2020-2025) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Bogotá's Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more