diversity

2Apr

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POLITICS

Religion And Geography Add To Voters’ Diversity – There’s No One ‘Latino Vote’

Nearly 1 in 5 people in the United States today are Latino, and “the Latino vote” has attracted significant news coverage as their political voice grows stronger. Yet considering all 62 million Latinos as a group isn’t necessarily all that helpful in understanding attitudes or voting patterns, as some scholars and journalists have pointed out. The U.S. Latino population is extremely diverse. As scholars who study immigration in the fields of sociology and religious ethics, we are especially interested in the growing religious diversity and often overlooked geographical diversity among Latino populations. These aspects of Latino identity are just beginning to be recognized more clearly in media reports. Yet they are as informative as gender, race and other characteristics for understandin...

Six Misunderstood Concepts About Diversity In The Workplace And Why They Matter?

3Jun

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LGBTQ, SOCIETY

Six Misunderstood Concepts About Diversity In The Workplace And Why They Matter?

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace is a sensitive topic. People are afraid to get things wrong or to use the wrong word. It doesn’t help that the words involved are confusing. You have probably encountered these concepts at a mandatory training session, a workplace event, or on Twitter. They often involve decades of complex scholarship being reduced down to a single word, and, as such, they can easily be misrepresented. But for any progress to be made, and for real diversity and inclusion to be achieved, getting to grips with what they actually mean is crucial. Here then are six of the most embattled concepts. You may be interested in: ‘We’re her real mum’: lesbian parents face healthcare challenges How racism and a lack of diversity can harm our workplaces CEOs are hinderin...

Finally Realizing Diversity Sells Victoria’s Secret Joins The ‘Inclusive Revolution,’

10Apr

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BEAUTY

Finally Realizing Diversity Sells Victoria’s Secret Joins The ‘Inclusive Revolution,’

Victoria’s Secret recently announced a cast of new “angels.” They include American athlete Megan Rapinoe, actress and activist Priyanka Chopra Jonas and the brand’s first transgender model, Vanetina Sampaio. Together, they speak to a far more diverse image of beauty than was common for the once popular company. Victoria’s Secret learned a lesson other leading fashion brands and the industry at large are coming to realize: diversity sells. Better representation This isn’t surprising. For years, consumers have called for greater inclusion and better representation in mainstream fashion. And the industry’s most avant-garde players have already responded, including Rihanna’s much talked about Savage X Fenty and Summersalt’s “every body is a beach body” campaign. Consumers are willing to back...

Behind The NFL’s Abysmal Record On Diversity – Why 30 Out Of 32 NFL Head Coaches Are White

21Jan

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SPORTS

Behind The NFL’s Abysmal Record On Diversity – Why 30 Out Of 32 NFL Head Coaches Are White

A couple of weeks after the close of the National Football League’s regular season, there is just one Black head coach and one Latino head coach left in the League – Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Ron Rivera of the Washington Football Team, respectively. This follows the firing of Brian Flores by the Miami Dolphins and David Culley by the Houston Texans. In other words, in a league in which most of the players are Black, 30 of the 32 NFL head coaches are white. I have studied diversity and inclusion in sport for more than two decades, including the ways in which race and gender intersect to affect leadership opportunities for women and men. My research shows that biased decision-making, organizational cultures that value similarity, and societal forms of bias and discriminat...

Diversity Of Test Subjects Is A Technology Blind Spot, What To Do About It – Building Machines That Work For Everyone

3Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS, TECHNOLOGY

Diversity Of Test Subjects Is A Technology Blind Spot, What To Do About It – Building Machines That Work For Everyone

People interact with machines in countless ways every day. In some cases, they actively control a device, like driving a car or using an app on a smartphone. Sometimes people passively interact with a device, like being imaged by an MRI machine. And sometimes they interact with machines without consent or even knowing about the interaction, like being scanned by a law enforcement facial recognition system. Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) is an umbrella term that describes the ways people interact with machines. HMI is a key aspect of researching, designing and building new technologies, and also studying how people use and are affected by technologies. Researchers, especially those traditionally trained in engineering, are increasingly taking a human-centered approach when developing sys...

There Are Ways To Change Racial And Ethnic Diversity Lacking Among Nonprofit Leaders

2Apr

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

There Are Ways To Change Racial And Ethnic Diversity Lacking Among Nonprofit Leaders

About 87% of nonprofit CEOs in the U.S. were white in 2019, down from 90% in 2016. Similarly, roughly 78% of nonprofit board members were white in 2019, down from 84% in 2016, according to Board Source, a nonprofit that tracks this information. In a country where Black and Latino individuals and other people of color make up about 40% of the population, this lack of diversity among nonprofit leaders could interfere with both the work that nonprofits do and their influence in the communities they serve, for several reasons. Constraints caused when diversity is lacking According to Board Source’s most recent data, just 6% of nonprofit board chairs identified as Black, 5% as Latino and 2% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Only 5% of nonprofit CEOs were Black, 3% Hispanic and 2% Asian or Pacifi...

Extra Diversity Work For Female Faculty Of Color For No Extra Reward – Here’s How To Fix That

2Dec

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EDUCATION

Extra Diversity Work For Female Faculty Of Color For No Extra Reward – Here’s How To Fix That

College faculty members are critical in helping American colleges become more diverse, inclusive and equitable. Professors and instructors not only teach and advise students, they also help institutions make inroads toward equity goals such as improving graduation rates for underrepresented students by connecting with and serving as role models for students. Female faculty members of color in particular are disproportionately called upon by both colleagues and students to do diversity, equity and inclusion work. While diversity work is often meaningful to them, most faculty members’ workloads and rewards systems are not designed to recognize this labor when it comes to salaries and promotions. This is just one example of how sexism and racism contribute to the persistent lack of female fa...

The Quality Of Diversity: The First Battle In The Culture Wars

18Oct

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POLITICS

The Quality Of Diversity: The First Battle In The Culture Wars

Nicholas Ensley Mitchell, University of Kansas American diversity is in the spotlight as racial discrimination in the United States reemerges as a major topic of public discussion, touching everything from education to housing to policing. The context of the quality of American diversity is inescapable as multiple debates around race relations continue to rage. We tend to think of diversity in demographic terms, but that’s an incomplete take. It has a qualitative element to it – it exists as a reality with which we all interact. The debate around voting rights, for example, applies to an American electorate that overwhelmingly lives in racially segregated communities. Even the bans on critical race theory – the academic movement that examines how racism has shaped public policy – will...

Looking Beyond The Bare Numbers Of Racial Diversity In Social Accounting

1Feb

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POLITICS, SOCIAL JUSTICE

Looking Beyond The Bare Numbers Of Racial Diversity In Social Accounting

From time to time, The Conversation asks leaders in America’s colleges and universities to address some of the most pressing issues in our nation. Here we ask Earl Lewis, director and founder of the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions, and Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Rutgers University – Newark, a diverse, urban public research university, about how numbers and statistics matter when examining institutional racism, the Capitol riot and Black Lives Matter. How has media reporting on numbers and statistics affected the public’s view of race? Nancy Cantor. Rutgers University - Newark, CC BY-ND Nancy Cantor: Society’s accounting of the summer of 2020 through Inauguration Day 2021 demonstrates the hard way numbers play into a long-standing history of racism and white privilege....

Ethnic diversity on campus helps break down stereotypes

4Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS

Ethnic diversity on campus helps break down stereotypes

When students attend ethnically diverse colleges, their enriched experience transforms how they view different ethnic groups and better prepares them for life and work in 21st century America. This finding is based on the responses of nearly 4,000 students from 28 U.S. colleges who completed annual surveys between 1999 and 2004 about their views of overall ethnic diversity at their schools, specific ethnic groups and their own well-being. More diversity makes students see ethnic groups as being basically the same when it comes to warmth and competence – two major dimensions of group stereotypes. That is, the more diverse a campus is, the more likely students perceive Asians, Latinos, Blacks and whites as similarly trustworthy and similarly intelligent, rather than as stereotypically diff...