Diversity

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Where Are the Old People in Your Diversity Program?

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

My son, Matt, has a 98-year-old statistics professor this semester. Professor Ernest Kurnow has been teaching in NYU’s business school since 1948. Matt’s delighted to have him as a teacher. We should all be so lucky.
Where do old people fit in your diversity program? Do you even talk about them? In the next two decades, [...]

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I Wish I Had Written This #11: Gay Marriage and Civil Rights

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Steve Crescenzo wrote “Trying to answer the civil rights question of our time.” I wish I had written this.
Here is a short list of people who ARE allowed to marry:
Wife beaters, pedophiles, child molesters, husband beaters, rapists, child beaters, pornography peddlers, pornography addicts, pornography stars, Pat Robertson (who probably falls into several of the categories [...]

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Women Make Less Than Men Because They Want To

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Okay, that’s a purposely provocative title. I don’t believe it for one second. But one of KnowHR’s commenters does. Steven R. said this in response to an article I wrote titled Women Make Less Than Men: 5 Things HR Needs to Do Right Now to End Pay Inequality:
Do some research and then come back and [...]

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Women Make Less Than Men: 5 Things HR Needs to Do Right Now to End Pay Inequality

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Unexplainable Pay Inequality in 2007
Women make less than men. In 2007. When controlling for all factors. How is that possible? Do you know anyone who actively and consciously pays women less than men? Well, it happens.
Women Earn on 80% Of What Their Male Counterparts Earn Right Out of School
The American Association of University Women released [...]

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Women Standing on a Glass Cliff?

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Photo credit: liikennevalo
I saw this definition today on Word Spy:
glass cliff n. A senior job or important project, particularly one given to a woman, with a high risk of failure (cf. glass ceiling).
Word Spy offers an example of “glass cliff” in use: [I]n a study of FTSE 100 companies, Haslam and his team discovered that [...]

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