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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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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... |
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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... |
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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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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...
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 ... |
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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...
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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...
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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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