Diversity Management, News and Updates
If your company or organization is looking to increase the diversity of its workforce, studies suggest putting a woman or someone from an underrepresented demographic in charge of hiring. According to the Journal of Applied Psychology, when women and/or people of color head hiring committees, it can have a significant…
While the United States is baking from this summer’s unprecedented heatwave, new research from the University of California, San Diego has revealed a disparity between how people of color and white Americans endure the record-breaking temperatures. According to a report from NPR’s Deepa Shivaram, “as record-high heat hammers much of…
The U.S. is supposed to be back in business and opening up for a return to life pre-COVID-19. But instead, public health officials are becoming increasingly concerned by a troubling series of recent developments, including an alarming drop in vaccinations among people of color and a sharp spike of the…
While some states have pushed back on policing reform following the death of George Floyd and the conviction of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin for his murder last summer, other states appear to be finally coming through with the much-needed reform measures. CNN’s Keith Allen, Brad Parks and Devan Cole…
In an alarming trend, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced that Black people are substantially more likely to die in traffic accidents than white men or women. Even during peak quarantine, when people were driving less due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of…
On Feb. 24, Senate Democrats reintroduced a police reform bill in response to the May 2020 killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. The bill’s reintroduction comes as instances of police brutality continue at an alarming rate across the country — especially when it comes to…
General Motors (No. 30 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list in 2020) topped headlines this week with its promise to be carbon neutral by 2040. Its groundbreaking commitments include making 40% of vehicles produced by the company carbon neutral by 2025 and the elimination of gas-powered, light-duty…
The progress and achievement of women entrepreneurs and women-owned businesses is flourishing. The third edition of the Mastercard (DiversityInc #8 ) Index of Women, released in November, shows that female entrepreneurs globally are making big strides—particularly in the United States, New Zealand and Canada, according to the report. Mastercard’s Index…
Commotion erupted at a Queens subway station in New York City on Friday as two NYPD officers pinned down and handcuffed a homeless woman. This event is the latest in a string of police overuse of force since more officers have been assigned to subway stations to fight fare evasion…
“Imposter syndrome” affects about 70% of Americans, according to psychologists Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes, who coined the term in 1978, but it can take a particularly heavy toll on people of color. Clance and Imes described imposter syndrome as an “internal experience of intellectual phoniness in people…
