Shutterstock/1000words
Representation alone cannot fix racism. But when deployed appropriately, it can provide reassurance and support to communities of colour.
The cockpit has long been the dominion of white men.
Benjamin Ohnona/EyeEm via Getty Images
The aviation industry was already expecting a severe pilot shortage over the coming years. The pandemic could make it even worse.
Stronger together.
Shutterstock
Only a quarter of UK startups have a female in their founding team and just 5% of SMEs are minority ethnic group led.
The new first form at Malory Towers is more diverse than Blyton’s original.
BBC/WildBrain/Queen Bert Limited/John Medland
It might seem like nostalgic escapism, but the show has a revisionist impulse at its heart.
Dmitry Nikolaev/Shutterstock
Second-generation migrants in Britain report more discrimination.
Dominic Cummings is looking for ‘cognitive diversity’ but history suggests that’s not easy to define.
PA
Dominic Cummings should read up on a deeply flawed experiment from the 1940s before he reads through those job applications.
Matej Kastelic/Shutterstock
Working-class academics can play a key role in boosting student diversity.
U.S. corporate boards still lack women.
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com
More women on corporate boards means more opportunities for women, and better performances by businesses.
A narrow definition of family can neglect the experiences of single-parent families.
Shutterstock
A narrow definition of family can neglect the experiences of many people and can impact policy and programs. It’s time to expand our ideas of what family means.
Minority patients often have better rapport with a same-race or same-ethnicity doctor.
Getty Images / ER Productions Limited
Minority patients do better when treated by doctors who share the same race or ethnicity But there’s a problem. Most doctors are white, and only 6% of doctors are black.
Getty Images
Most of the community radio stations operate on a survivalist level, and should be seen as struggling small, medium and micro enterprises.
from Shutterstock.com
The promotion of white middle-class ideas and lifestyles in children’s books risks alienating children from minority groups. It could also give white middle-class children a sense of superiority.
Shutterstock
Heroes and heroines of Classical Greek tragedy used to get all the glory. Today scholars, and theatre and film directors are looking to what the minor players can tell us about the zeitgeist.
EPA-EFE/John G Mabanglo
Despite the efforts to expand the Academy, women and people of colour are once again conspicuous by their absence this year.
Joel Carrett/AAP
Systemic racism looks at the way racism operates over all of society, not just in one-on-one interactions.
While 97% of Romance Writers of America members are women, only 14% are people of color.
Refat/Shutterstock.com
The group seemed to be doing all of the right things to diversify its ranks. It wasn’t enough.
The State of Texas is in a legal battle to seize power from the Houston public school board.
Eakrin Rasadonyindee/Shutterstock.com
While the state of Texas says it is taking over the Houston school system in the name of school improvement, an expert argues the move is motivated by racism and political power struggles.
Nonprofit leaders aren’t particularly diverse.
Djomas/Shutterstock.com
Leaders like Ford Foundation President Darren Walker are the exception.
To make the most of telescopes like the Square Kilometre Array, we will need the talents of people from across the full spectrum of society.
AAP / Rebecca Lemay
A determined approach to improving diversity will also lead to better science.
Susan Stamberg interviewed President Jimmy Carter during a National Public Radio call-in program in 1979.
AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi
From the beginning, National Public Radio vowed that it would speak with ‘many voices.’