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Continue reading →: Diversity Metrics that Matter #metrics #diversity #inclusion
Google’s lead in releasing its diversity data has other tech companies talking. But are these organizations measuring the right things, and what should they do next to advance diversity and inclusion in the tech industry?
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Continue reading →: How to Address Racism in the Workplace #diversity #inclusion
Racism in the workplace can breed an environment where discrimination and distrust are common, and create a workplace that is potentially more violent or prone to legal action. I sat down with our intern Luke Siuty to discuss what diversity leaders can do to prevent these situations and what their role…
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Continue reading →: Is Silicon Valley Ageist? #diversity #inclusion
In recent weeks many of the big tech companies in Silicon Valley have released diversity numbers detailing a significant lack thereof within their organizations. Aside from poor showings in gender and racial diversity, one dimension that has not been shared via metrics? Age.
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Continue reading →: Stop Treating Powerful Women Like a Novelty #diversity #gender
So Becky Hammon made history this week when the San Antonio Spurs named her assistant coach. Hammon is only the second female ever to achieve coach status in the NBA. But what is perhaps as notable as her appointment is how the team broke the news. In the release, the team…
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Continue reading →: Punished For Being Pretty #diversity #beauty
One of the things I love most about Instagram is not the beautiful images you see of lives well lived, well traveled and well considered, it’s the motivational sayings that proliferate the platform. In fact, my own posts are comprised of more phrases than pictures. Model Naomi Campbell posted one…
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Continue reading →: Perception is the Devil; Women Penalized for Promoting Women @WSJ #diversity #inclusion
I’m convinced that perception is half the reason progress in diversity-related matters is yo-yo slow. How those in power look at you, their unspoken but powerful judgments, they’re like microinequities on steroids. Even when you try to do something good, if you’re a minority, something bad will appear and follow…
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Continue reading →: Former Abercrombie & Fitch CDO Todd Corley Sets the Record Straight #diversity #inclusion #leadership
It wasn’t Todd Corley’s decision to leave his position as chief diversity officer for global retailer Abercrombie & Fitch. But now that he’s gone he can look back on a job well done and a bright future ahead at the helm of his own TAPO Institute. He took a few…
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Continue reading →: Are White Gay Men Stealing From Black Women? #LGBT #diversity
My gay friend Travis sent me a blog he found in Time, “Dear White Gays: Stop Stealing Black Female Culture” by Sierra Mannie. In the piece, Mannie kvetches that Black women’s hair styles, clothes, language and dance moves are being pillaged by gay white men. That they are taking all of…
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Continue reading →: Don’t Be Distracted by the N Word #diversity #racism
This week, the WestView News got a lot of attention when it used the N word in the headline for an op-ed piece on President Obama, “The Nig-r in the White House.” Of course everyone’s on fire about it. It’s been a long, twitchy chorus of ‘how dare he,’ and…
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