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Equity vs Equality: Why Gender Equity Is the Way Forward

Slayton Search Partners

This International Women’s Day, we celebrate the commendable strides women are making toward equality in the workplace. Much of the road to gender equality remains untraveled. Much of the road to gender equality remains untraveled. Discrimination and unconscious biases have long hindered forward movement.

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13 Tried-and-Tested DEI Initiatives To Implement [in 2023]

Analytics in HR

DEI initiatives (diversity, equity and inclusion) are essential to creating a modern and equitable employee experience, and younger generations are more actively seeking to work with organizations who take DEI seriously and build it into their culture. DEI initiatives focus on implementing diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace.

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Beyond Diversity: Creating an Inclusive Workplace

Everwise

The next generation of professionals working their way up the ranks are demanding more of employers when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Millennials are the most diverse generation in history : 59% identify as Caucasian, and 27% have immigrant backgrounds. As of 2015, working millennials number over 53.5

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How to Implement Diversity & Inclusion Programs That Actually Work

Criteria Corp

Diversity is a topic that is on everyone’s minds right now, but corporate diversity programs are nothing new. Nearly every large company (over 1,000 employees) in the United States has some sort of diversity program in place, according to research by Harvard Business Review. However, as of last year, 61% of U.S.

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Why Diversity Hiring Is Important

ExactHire

And now, more than ever, everyone seems committed to dismantling discrimination. Diversity is complicated, and that’s why most companies fail to meet their Diversity, Equity & Inclusion goals. Businesses tend to see diversity as a numbers issue. These factors make conversations around diversity difficult.

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Six Myths about Disabled Workers that Prevent Business Growth

Abel HR

There are nearly 40 million Americans, or almost 13 percent of the American population, with a disability in 2015. When everyone in a business is homogenous – in demographics, education, background or other metrics – it’s easy to get carried away in the groupthink. This is a large pool of workers, especially in a tight labor market.

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Surprise: Big Perks Don’t Always Equal Happier Female Employees

TalentCulture

In September, a female employee sued Microsoft for gender discrimination. When we look at all these revolutionary changes, we may conclude that companies are simply acting in their own best interest, now that the business case for diversity has been made. The conversation about women in the workplace is getting personal.