Tag: gender
Growth in Racial Diversity Among Architects is Slow, but Experts Say...
Despite recent evidence showing racial diversity in the architecture field is growing slowly, prominent Black architects refrain from calling the increase an achievement. They...
African Americans Experience Racism Differently Across Gender, Education Levels
Most Black Americans say they have experienced racial discrimination. African American men and those with some college experience, however, are more likely to face...
How an Institution in the Deep South Developed Guidelines for Supporting...
Lorena de Idiaquez, a professor in the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine and an attending physician at the Birmingham Veteran Affairs...
Men in Nursing: A Crucial Profession Continues to Lack Gender Diversity
Despite the great strides being made by women in healthcare professions — they now comprise the majority of incoming medical school students in 2018...
Equality in the Workplace: Are Women Treated the Same as Men?
Despite hopes for significant improvement in equal pay and the removal of barriers for women to advance in the workplace, progress in these areas...
Equality in the Workplace: The Stubborn Lack of Progress in Reducing Harassment...
Although laws protecting women against discrimination and harassment in the workplace have been around for decades, there still is much work to be done...
Defining, Mitigating, and Reducing Harassment in the Workplace
You do not have to look very long or hard lately to find cases of harassment in the workplace. Employees are increasingly coming forward...
Study Reveals Correlation Between Conformity to Gender Norms and Women’s Chosen...
Researchers at the University of Oklahoma released a study showing that, for female college students, choosing a major is often related to the degree...
Majority of Hate Crimes Go Unreported, Target Victims Based on Gender...
Approximately 54 percent of hate crimes that took place in the United States between 2011 and 2015 were not reported to law enforcement, and...
Ellen Pao Creates Project to Address Silicon Valley’s Gender Diversity Problem
Ellen Pao, former interim chief executive of the social-networking and news site Reddit, announced on Tuesday that she is assembling a group of eight...
Nursing Professionals’ Roundtable
INSIGHT Into Diversity recently spoke with three nursing professionals about various issues within nursing education and practice. They offered insight into the increased demand...
Lessons of the Ellen Pao Case
The Ellen Pao gender discrimination case against her former employer — the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (Kleiner Perkins) — was...
