Diversity Management, News and Updates
With the Tokyo 2020 Olympics finally underway after the COVID-19-related postponement, event organizers have one message they are committed to driving home to spectators watching the Summer Games: women athletes don’t deserve to be sexualized or treated differently than their male counterparts. Graham Dunbar of the Associated Press reported that…
Conservative opinion outlet Fox News has been fined a record $1 million by the New York City Commission on Human Rights. The agency said the penalty covers repeated worksite sexual harassment of female employees and rampant job retaliation. David Bauder of the Associated Press has reported that “as part of…
Throughout much of her life, and even now, 69 years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is considered a larger-than-life Hollywood icon. And now, thanks to a new 26-foot-tall, 34,000 pound-memorial statue of the actress recently unveiled in Palm Springs, the actress is literally larger than life — but not everyone…
The murder of George Floyd galvanized the need for racial reform and equity in the U.S., and boards have been listening. Data from the consulting firm ISS Corporate Solutions reveals that between July 2020 and May 2021, 32% of individuals newly appointed to the corporate boards within the country’s largest…
College graduates in America, on the whole, owe more than $1.7 trillion in student debt, but women owe the larger percentage of that overall debt — an astounding $929 billion as of 2020. If those numbers weren’t disturbing enough, a new study from The American Association of University Women (AAUW)…
May turned out to be a very good month for America’s working women. A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has revealed that more than half of new jobs gained in the United States last month went to women. After reviewing the numbers, Chabeli Carrazana of nonprofit newsroom…
Diamond Robinson was minding her own business, walking up and down the sidewalk on the street she lives on in Eastpointe, Michigan, talking on her cellphone when a neighbor, who had recently moved into the neighborhood, approached her and told her she was talking too loudly. A few minutes later,…
Judge Robin Ransom has made history as the first Black woman ever named to the Missouri Supreme Court. Jason Rosenbaum of St. Louis Public Radio reported that on Monday, May 24, Gov. Mike Parson named Appeals Court Judge Ransom as the Show-Me state’s newest Supreme Court justice. In a press…
Lisa Michelle O’Quinn of Greenville, North Carolina was arrested after hitting two Black women with her car during an otherwise nonviolent protest over the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in April. Elizabeth City has been the site of near-daily protests for weeks, and tensions in the city grew…
Women’s basketball continues to make headlines for its offensive and sexist treatment of female players. First, there was the viral story earlier this year about the incredible disparity in training facilities and resources set-up for female NCAA basketball players compared to male players — with the men getting better weight…
