New online tool tracks number of Latinos on professional boards
Approximately 75 per cent of Fortune 1000 (F1000) don’t have a Latino/a director on their board — but a new initiative is hoping to...
Valuable employees: Companies need to do more to support disabled workers
Corporate inclusion efforts need to do more for disabled workers.
ER patients may not care about a doctor’s race, gender as much as once thought
Medical schools are placing an increased emphasis on diversity and inclusion, and efforts appear to be (slowly) paying off. Recent initiatives have led to...
Industry first: Kickstarter becomes first tech company to unionize
Kickstarter employees officially unionized Tuesday, marking a first for an industry that’s plagued with accusations of toxicity, gender inequity, and discrimination. The historic 46-37 vote marks the...
Trouble keeping goals? New study says to keep your eye on the prize
Goals: They can be easy to set but hard to keep. Now, a new study led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London provides clues...
Teaching kids how to make guitars can get them hooked on engineering
This article was written for theconversation.com byMark French, Purdue University The Big Idea: I’m part of a team of professors and high school teachers...
New textbook focuses on LGBTQ health education in U.S. medical schools
Inclusion is becoming a priority for U.S. medical schools — and efforts appear to be paying off. Initiatives to create disability-friendly spaces, for example, have...
Hubble telescope study: Remove names from an application & bias disappears
There’s evidence that minority candidates are judged more harshly in professional and academic settings. While that’s due to several factors, research continually singles out implicit bias as the...
Why forgetting may make your mind more efficient
Originally written for Knowable Magazine By Tom Siegfried In the quest to fend off forgetfulness, some people build a palace of memory. It’s a...
More U.S. states pass laws banning natural hair discrimination
On January 1, 2020, California became the first U.S. state to ban discrimination against natural hair. New York and New Jersey quickly followed, and now...