Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile…
DetailsWhat 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…
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