Beware the female Doctor Who dares to challenge the status quo. First thing Monday morning I received an urgent text from a friend: “Have you heard about The Doctor?” My friend is actually a medical doctor so she could have been referring to a professional matter, but I knew exactly what she meant. “Yes,” I…
As far as titles go, ‘Race Discrimination Commissioner’ is a fairly benign one. Certainly, as distinct from its incumbent, Dr Tim Soutphommasane, it is not quite as bombastic as its former Soviet counterpart, the ‘People’s Commissariat for Nationalities’. That comparison of course is not meant to imply the office’s communiques, or that of its parent…
As an entrepreneur, Ms Liu founded The Dream Collective in 2012 because she was confronted by the lack of leadership development opportunities for young women in the workplace. She says Australian corporate leaders are doing it wrong, and need to get better at “walking the talk”. Research shows that for every $10 invested into senior…
The Turnbull government empowered by an angry backbench has rejected a Human Rights Commission-led campaign for racial and cultural diversity targets to be pushed on corporate Australia. The commission’s July 2016 reform blueprint, Leading for Change,recommended that organisations consider “sending signals on cultural diversity” by collecting data on the cultural backgrounds of employees in addition…
Click To Watch Video Oscar contender Mark Ruffalo announced on Twitter that he will be going to the Academy Awards ceremony after saying earlier he was considering skipping the event over lack of diversity among the nominees. Ruffalo, who is white, is a best supporting actor nominee for playing an investigative journalist in Catholic Church…
“Diversity is strength – and the world’s greatest fire department will grow even stronger when it more closely resembles the city it serves.” -Mayor Bill de Blasio, June 2, 2015 On June 2, 2015 Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law Intro. 0579-A, allowing for greater transparency into the New York City Fire Department application…
Companies will feature in full-page ads and are among 154 of Australia’s biggest brand names calling for parliament to act on marriage equality. Corporate giants McDonald’s, Twitter and the big four banks are among 154 of the nation’s biggest household brands to declare their support for same-sex marriage. The companies, also including Telstra and Airbnb,…
Asian-Americans get touted as a “model minority” for their hard work and cultural assimilation, Jeff Yang says. (CNN) When I was growing up, one of the things that always made me crazy was my parents’ habit of constantly praising other kids in my presence: “Oh, remember Olivia Chang? Did you know she’s going to be…
At some point we will all have to start asking this question. At the AHRI Diversity and Inclusion Conference we have seen a the discussion still focus on legacy items where we still silo Gender Diversity as a ‘Women Can” program. Can we not start knocking down this barrier and understand that its Gender we…