Gloria Steinem: The Future of the Fight for Women’s Rights - The Daily Beast (via saramess)
Worth reading twice.
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Diversity training damned in new study
Most diversity training is not evaluated at all or languishes in the Level 1, la la land of ‘happy sheets’. So check out Alexandra Kalev’s study from the University of Arizona. 31 years of data from 830 companies – how’s that for a Level 4 evaluative study! Her latest study found, after the delivery of diversity training, a 7.5% DROP in women managers, 10% DROP in black women managers and a 12% DROP in black men in senior management positions. There were similar DROPS among Latinos and Asians.
Groupthink seems to be at the heart of the matter. Groupthink among people who employ and promote people like themselves creates the problem. Groupthink among compliance training companies who simply do what they do without supporting evidence and tout ineffective ‘courses’. Groupthink in HR, who find it easier to just run ‘courses’ rather than tackle real business problems.
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Can a White Man Speak With Authority on Diversity?
My point is that it is not skin color, gender or orientation that makes one “good at” managing diversity but mindset.
This mindset for majority-culture people requires an epiphany or an evolution in thinking that brings one to understand the extent of the discrimination around all of us that is perpetrated mostly by the majority culture.
Anyone can become “authoritative” about diversity. Nobody comes to the table that way.
We must all come to the realization that, as a reader put it nicely, “I am not different than you, I am different like you.”
Source: DiversityInc
lisforlife asked: Just curious, are you a student? What gave you the idea for doing a tumblr on diversity and inclusion? It kind of sounds like something that is part of a bigger project of some sort...
I’m not a student but someone who believes in lifelong learning. Diversity and Inclusion (D & I) is definitely a bigger project, perhaps a lifetime project – that is why I encourage input from the community and I’m learning lots. I will only be out of a job when we are all assessed and valued for who we are, without paying any attention to weight, height, racial background, gender, physical ability, age, handedness, how we part our hair and so on. If I do my job right, I will work myself out of a job.
Thank you everyone for sharing.
100 Years of Naval Aviation: Why diversity matters in flight
Many an aircraft has been saved by a sharp, junior, inexperienced crewmember. Often it is because of this lack of experience, and the complacency that may come with experience, which makes them able to see what others cannot. This is what diversity is all about – it’s about maximizing the service’s potential by involving different sets of eyes and hearing everyone’s voice. Diversity is more than gender and race, and we cannot discount what this type of diversity brings to the table and why it needs to be encouraged.
Written by Lt. Cmdr. Charlotte Pittman
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