September 15 2010 - A recent study assesses the state of gender segregation in U.S. employment since the early 1970s.
September 1 2010 - Informal support networks in the workplace are less advantageous to women employees in terms of career progression.
August 14 2010 - Organizations that only consider age when addressing generational divisions in the workforce risk
losing knowledge to retirements and higher staff turnover.
August 12 2010 - Gender harassment in the workplace has a negative impact on women’s physical and emotional health
irrespective of whether it includes unwanted sexual attention.
April 17 2010 - A significant
number of women and under-represented minority chemists and chemical engineers have been discouraged from pursuing a career in science, technology,
engineering or mathematics (STEM).
April 17 2010 - Immigrants with disabilities are more likely to be employed than a comparable group
born in the USA.
April 17 2010 - Women researchers in the life sciences still receive lower levels of compensation than their male equivalents,
including those at higher academic and professional levels.
November 19 2009 - Management stereotypes are likely to evolve as more women assume leadership roles in the workforce.
December 12 2008 - As 21st century leaders, you know that building, guiding, and sustaining truly diverse communities is tremendously difficult work.
August 26 2008 - A study by Age Lessons, a Chicago-based intergenerational consulting firm, has
identified workplace '3 Rs' that are keeping older workers up at night.
March 4 2008 - While organizations tend to believe that diversity in the workplace is important,
only 30% have an agreed definition of 'diversity', according to a recent Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
report.
February 27 2008 - Research by the non-profit RAND Corporation has found that companies recognized
for their commitment to diversity may demonstrate best practice as identified in existing literature but do not
always achieve a high degree of diversity in reality.
January 21 2008 - A survey of people in a range of industries across the US found that 85 per cent of respondents believe that tattoos and
body piercings reduce the chance of getting employment.
February 12 2007 - New research finds that affirmative action is still a highly contentious issue in American society with people typically opposing it either because they regard it as inherently unfair or simply because they are racist.
December 14 2006 - (News release) Recruiting system matches hundreds of outstanding African-American students with Fortune 500 businesses to fill key management positions
December 5 2006 - New research conducted at the University of California, Davis shows that
women still hold only one in 10 top decision-making positions at California's 400 largest publicly traded companies.
October 30 2006 - Simma Lieberman talks to successful people in the diversity field. They have a passion for diversity and they live their work. Whether or not they take their work
home with them, their work is always driven by the values they live every day, and their lives are driven by the values they promote at work.
September 14 2006 - A new study shows that diversity training programs have failed to eliminate bias and increase the number of minorities in management, despite the fact that many corporations have spent increasing amounts of money on this area.
September 6 2006 - What whites think about their own race is the
focus of an innovative national survey.
September 5 2006 - An in-class writing assignment designed to boost students' sense of identity and personal integrity reduced the achievement gap between African-American and non-minority students by 40 per cent.
June 19 2006 - (News release) In the finance field, the glass ceiling is firmly in place--at least according to women in the profession. A new survey conducted by CFO magazine finds that 40% of female finance executives say there are limits to their ascension in the function. To back up their claims, 34% of women report that they have been denied a promotion or a raise in the past five years partly because of their gender.
April 10 2006 - (News release) New research from Tufts University indicates that diverse groups perform better than homogenous groups when it comes to decision making and that this is due largely to dramatic differences in the way whites behave in diverse groups--changes that occur even before group members begin to interact.
April 5 2006 - (News release) Global Lead Management Consulting, an international advisory firm specializing in workplace diversity, launched today The Phoenix Principles: Leveraging Inclusion to Transform Your Organization, a new book aimed at helping business leaders transform themselves and their organizations to produce a greater return on investment through innovative inclusion practices.
February 21 2006 - Why do so few African Americans succeed in the accounting profession?
A preliminary analysis of results from a
survey conducted among members of the National Association of Black Accountants shows that
race continues to impact the careers of people of color in the accounting profession.
February 9 2006 - (News release) Two recent surveys conducted for the American Advertising Federation (AAF) reveal that with an increased need for talent, advertising industry executives are facing significant challenges regarding recruiting, multicultural marketing and retaining minority talent.
October 24 2005 - (News release) Monster(R), the leading global online careers and recruitment resource and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNST), and Diversity Best Practices today announced select key findings from a jointly commissioned survey of both job recruiters and seekers on the topic of diversity recruiting. One component of the survey revealed that many diverse job seekers have different attitudes about whether or not to self-identify during the recruiting process.
October 1 2005 - Stereotypes of men as
decisive and aggressive and of women as indecisive and gentle are 'alive and well'
and influencing personnel decisions at large, private law firms
June 17 2005 - "I've come to realize that the only way to inspire change, stir activity, or get anything
done at all is to explore the hidden world of social networks-"grey markets" of rights,
riddles, and rituals", says Karen Stephenson.
March 15 2005 - The conventional belief is that women are often
ambivalent about power, but a recent survey finds that the vast majority of
businesswomen like power and actively pursue it.
December 20 2004 - Baby boomers are popularly viewed as white suburbanites who protested
the Vietnam War, but they also include children who came of age during the Reagan era.
August 13 2003 - "It's not about fixing women; it's about fixing the organizations that women work in.
Companies need to deliver a sustained commitment to women from the top and rotate women to get line assignments."
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