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The latest prime time cooking show is supposed to be a celebration of different cultures. So why does it include a “Team Australia?”
Dozens of companies have made pledges in recent months to make their workforces more inclusive. A scholar asked employees what they think that means.
For decades, scientists believed that only male birds sang. Then women entered the field and showed what their predecessors had missed.
While providing access to digital technology is important, it won’t even the digital playing field. If teachers can embrace all students’ digital interests as opportunities for learning, it would help.
Students can better see their commonality with others when they attend colleges that enroll students from diverse backgrounds, research shows.
Diversifying leadership can change organizational cultures, which removes barriers to women in the tech industry and academia.
Just as women were unseen until recently, due to institutional sexism, as appropriate candidates for board positions, racialized Canadians are also dismissed due to institutional racism.
A two-week analysis of Australian news and current affairs programs shows they do not represent the make-up of the wider community, either in presenters and journalists or in the stories they depict.
Recent anti-racism protests have spurred dozens of companies to vow to diversify their workforces, yet big tech’s efforts to do so since 2014 show promises aren’t enough to overcome the real problem.
Unless we address the lack of diversity in newsrooms, we will continue to see work like Leak’s cartoon making it through the gate.
In response to anti-racism protests, many colleges plan to implement diversity training. Research shows it’s a waste of time.
Recent years have seen a rise in the number of businesses offering employees bias training. However, bias training is not a one-size-fits-all solution and unless tailored to specific contexts loses its value.
Hip food offerings can signal that a neighborhood is gentrifying – especially when they repackage traditional foods for wealthy white eaters.
Evidence shows sharing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories helps break down stereotypes and prejudice. But these stories are absent from the majority of classroom literature.
The past month has shown just how much diversity in media matters. But there is no quick fix – sustained, multi-pronged initiatives are required to bring more diverse journalists into the industry.
Barriers for Black scientists won’t go away without substantial funding – and measures that don’t require white people to lose out.
Lampard’s point - that his opportunity to manage was exclusively the result of his own hard work - reinforces the belief that football is meritocratic, which it is not.
The absence of ethnic diversity in politics and business distorts and undermines the lived reality of a multicultural democracy.
Enacting real change in business is about more than posting online, it is about making real structural and lasting change to how you do business.
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Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tufts University
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Professor of Television & Media Studies, University of Leeds
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Professor of Sociology, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
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Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
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Professor of Psychology; Faculty Fellow Institute for Policy Research; Professor of Management and Organizations, Northwestern University
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Director Internationalisation., Rhodes University
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Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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