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Defining Diversity: Beyond Race And Gender

 

Just about every medium or large U.S. company talks about its dedication to diversity, whether in a prominent section of its Web site or in its corporate mission statement.

But the definition of what, exactly, these firms mean by diversity is often vague.

Only 30 percent of human resources professionals say that their company even has an official definition of diversity, according to a 2007 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management.

Beyond Simple Demographics

While diversity has traditionally referred to categories like race and gender, comp...

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Why Racial Profiling Persists in Medical Research

 

While the rest of the country wrangled over the behavior of police officers in the wake of the Henry Louis Gates arrest in July 2009, some scientists were pulling out their hair over racial profiling of a different kind: that perpetrated by medical researchers. Experts within the research community say a small but stubborn streak of racial profiling has long persisted in the med...

Study: TV May Perpetuate Race Bias

 

Most people regard watching television as a passive activity. You sit, you watch. Occasionally, you change the channel. But a new study reveals that even this passive diversion may lead to actively damaging effects, particularly when it comes to issues of race.

In a series of intricately designed experiments, psychologists at Tufts University demonstrate that subtle racial...

The Princess and the Frog:  Disney Debuts First Black Princess

 

The new Disney fairy tale movie, " The Princess and the Frog" has a familiar storyline. (Girl kisses frog. Weird stuff happens.)

But the look is new: The debut of Disney's first African American princess. Ever.

The animated musical opens this week in New York and Los Angeles (and everywhere next month) and already Web searches on Yahoo! have grown over 100% i...

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The Aynak Copper Tender:   Implications for Afghanistan and the West

 
by James R. Yeager, BSc., MBA (Former Consultant to the Ministry of Mines and Industry during the Aynak Tender)
Contributors:  Eng. M. Mir Ashan Sediq (former Minister of Mines and Industries, Afghanistan); Mr. Ed Smith (former Head of the Afghanistan Reconstruction Group at the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan); Mr. David Garner, former advisor to the Ministry of Mines and Ind...

Gateway Trade Mission III to Canary Islands,Spain

  

Diversity Spectrum is the chief US Agent and Media Partner for the Gateway Trade Mission III to Canary Islands, Spain.  Owing to the exceptional opportunities generated last year via the Gateway Trade Mission II, the US Commercial Officer in Spain, Ellen Lenny-Pessagno, will again lead the trade mission to the Canary Islands as the Chair.

The trade mission serves...

Chris Lu, the Son of Chinese Immigrants,  is a Key Advisor in the Obama Administration

 
 
By Lois Romano
 

After four years as Barack Obama's legislative director in the Senate, Chris Lu knows the president's preferences and record as well as anyone -- which puts him in the perfect job these days. He's the Cabinet secretary -- a title that belies an intense assignment as chief intermediary between the White House and the federal agenc...

Un Canario en la Casa Blanca: Juan Verde Es la Mano Derecha de Obama en la UE (Dispatch from Spain)

 

El español Juan Verde Suárez (Telde, Gran Canaria, 1971), será, desde el 2 de noviembre, el español que más alto haya llegado en la política estadounidense. Barack Obama lo ha nombrado su mano derecha para las relaciones comerciales con el Viejo Continente.

Verde, de 38 años, tomará posesión el lunes de su cargo...

Evolve Performance Management:  Managing Diversity Workshop

 

On October 28th, Evolve Performance Management will be hosting Managing Diversity, a dynamic and compelling half-day workshop that empowers managers to maximize the benefits of workplace diversity in the 21st century.


These workshops are priced at $249 per session, but we are delighted to announce a limited number of complimentary passes.

To reserve your seat for this...

Diversity Spectrum's Kelly Kowalski Wins Regional Emmy

 

Documentary filmmaker and Diversity Spectrum contributor, Kelly Kowalski, won a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at award ceremonies in Phoenix, Arizona. Kelly was nominated for five Emmy Awards for her work at KNME-TV, the PBS affiliate in Albuquerque, New Mexico. All KNME nominations this year involved Kelly’s work.

The Emmy was awarded for...

Hate Crimes Legislation Heads to President Obama

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Today, the United States Senate took an historic step toward ensuring justice for the victims of hate crimes targeted for violence due to their sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or disability.

"Dennis and I are extremely proud of the Senate for once again passing this historic measure of protection for victims of these brutal crimes,” said Judy Shepard, p...

Obama Challenged for Male-only Basketball Games

 

President Obama’s in hot water again. And it’s that same old nemesis.

No, not Rush Limbaugh. The other really round culprit. You know, the basketball. Some critics are upset because he’s not more inclusive when he participates in the sport.

It’s not the first time the president has received criticism for his interest in basketball. Or his prefe...

The Shriver Report: A Womans Nation Changes Everything

 

By Heather Boushey and Ann O’Leary

Download the executive summary (pdf)

This report describes how a woman’s nation changes everything about how we live and work today. Now for the first time in our nation’s history, women are half of all U.S. workers and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American families...

Latino in America - CNN & Soledad O'Brien Chronicle How a Minority Group Is Remaking the USA

 

The Latino population, now America's largest minority, is set to nearly triple by 2050. In fact, the U.S. now has the highest Latino population after Mexico. Their sheer numbers are shaking up America, reshaping schools, churches and neighborhoods and forcing a nation of immigrants to rediscover what it means to be an American.

For two nights, CNN's Soledad O'Brien journ...

Afghanistan: China Development Strategy Outpaces US Military Strategy

 

In July 2009, Diversity Spectrum President Lynn Heffron met with former US congressman Don Ritter, President & CEO of the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce, concerning issues of global diversity as they pertained to new market initiatives in Afghanistan. Ritter, quoted in the following article and other related articles in the Diversity Spectrum Web Magazine, served 7 terms r...

Lack of Oversight, Official Bias Led to China Winning the Aynak Copper Tender in Afghanistan


A report on the Aynak Copper tender in Afghanistan shows that a Chinese firm won the rights to one of the world's most valuable copper deposits in Afghanistan in 2007 through a flawed process that made it impossible for Western companies to win the bid against state-supported Chinese companies who include government aid with their bid.

James R. Yeager, who served as an Advisor ...

Middle Kingdom Meets Elementary School: D.C. Charter School Teaches Mandarin Chinese

 

On the morning of Sept. 2, 2008, the 198th day of this latest Year of the Rat, Sarah Harris stands outside a tan brick building on 8th and Varnum Streets NE in Brookland. She bends to pick up the plastic sign that has just toppled from its perch against a construction fence: WASHINGTON YU YING PCS.

 

“We are very glad to see you here!” Harris s...

What is Inclusion?

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by Shafik Asante


In 1955 the story of a brave and tired woman named Rosa Parks was put in front of this country's awareness. They say this woman had gotten tired, in fact, historically tired of being denied equality. She wanted to be included in society in a full way, something which was denied people labeled as "black" people! So Rosa Parks sat down on a b...

THE SECRET SONG The New Album and DVD by DJ Spooky

 

DJ Spookyʼs new project “The Secret Song” – isnʼt really an album: itʼs a manifesto about the place of history in our modern collaged, scrambled, sampla-delic to the core, mega info overloaded digital culture. With references stretching from Thorstein Veblenʼs “Theory of the Leisure Class” and John Maynard Keynes classic in the ...




    
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