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Continue reading →: Modern Day Slavery Includes Domestic Migrant Workers in Global Workplaces
For as long as I can remember I’ve heard of something called the slave mentality. When my mother talked about it she meant the self-loathing attitudes black people learned during slavery and still perpetuate – now voluntarily – today. But there are actually real, modern day slaves still in existence.…
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Continue reading →: @shondarhimes says she didn’t break the glass ceiling. Her sisters before her had already laid the path.
Boundary breaking TV producer Shonda Rhimes was honored with the Sherry Lansing award yesterday, and her speech, well. Don’t feel bad if you get choked up. She is a fabulous writer. “…If I had broken through the glass ceiling that would mean I’d made it through to the other side where…
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Continue reading →: Be The Change You Want To See #race #diversity #EricGarner
Those of you who follow my blog may have wondered at my rather conspicuous silence on the Mike Brown and Eric Garner verdicts. But in all honesty, I was struggling. I felt quite hopeless, wondering what on earth it would take to stop the consistent, outright torture and killing of…
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Continue reading →: Is Your Diversity Training Inclusive? #diversity #training #inclusion #SaturdayNightLive
Saturday Night Live likely produced some hard core laughs with a recent satire about diversity training, but the stereotypes the skit uncovered need to be addressed if diversity training is to have value – and not end up a joke.
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Continue reading →: Feminism on TV? ‘Scandal’-ous #diversity #inclusion #gender #Scandal
If you needed a(nother) reason to watch Scandal, HuffPo’s got it: The popular TV show gives viewers lessons on feminism to millions of viewers each week. According to an article by Jessica Samakow posted this week, our favorite fixer Olivia Pope and our favorite fictional first lady Mellie Grant are…
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Continue reading →: Quiet Advocacy: You don’t have to make a big noise to have an impact #diversity #inclusion
All you cinema buffs are likely aware that Oscar-winning director Mike Nichols died this week. He was 83. He’s known for films like The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Silkwood or the more recent Charlie Wilson’s War. But I think he may also have been a quiet advocate for…
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Continue reading →: Big Girls Make Less Money #diversity #gender #obesity
You’d have to be an alien – a fresh off your intergalactic space ship alien – not to know that women all over the world make less money than men, on average. But did you know the more overweight a woman is the more likely she is to work a…
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Continue reading →: The Reality of Street Harassment #gender #catcalling #equality
As a woman there are certain things you deal with. You don’t ask for them, they’re just a fact of life. It has nothing to do with beauty or body type. The only real requirement is that you be feminine, which by definition, if you are a woman, you are.…
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Continue reading →: Perception and The Battle Between The Sexes #diversity #inclusion #gender #power
You’ve likely heard the comparisons before: Men are assertive, women are bossy. Men are detail-oriented, women are fussy. There’s a real double standard at work when it comes to how men and women are perceived.
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