What are the best parts of your experience as a faculty member? Ask this question of a woman of color in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, and her eyes will likely widen as she animatedly describes her research and how it addresses a problem she sees as important. She is apt to…
DetailsMany will have to work longer and save more to have enough money. There’s fairly consistent data in academia and on Wall Street that, for whatever reasons, women just aren’t saving enough for retirement – especially compared to men. Take a June 2016 study by Aon Hewitt, a Lincolnshire, Illinois-based global human resources company. Researchers…
DetailsThe cost of inaction is huge. There are two types of companies today: the quick and the dead. When business leaders hesitate, they become lost leaders—literally. HR has never been known as a forward-looking, fast-moving actor in organizations. This is partly because HR’s view of itself has been fuzzy and ill-defined, and partly because others have…
DetailsA class-action lawsuit alleging that an employment agency of unskilled laborers discriminated against black applicants in favor of Hispanic applicants may proceed despite timeliness questions, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently ruled. Sidney Shirley was a black applicant for employment with Staffing Network Holdings LLC, an employment agency. Shirley…
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