Category: Diversity Initiatives

Facing Backlash, Some Corporate Leaders Go ‘Under the Radar’ With D.E.I.

New hurdles and opposition to diversity programs have pushed some business leaders to approach their D.E.I. initiatives “in a less in your face way,” while others are doubling down.
Crying at Work and Other Experiments in Emotion

A member of a laboratory team wants her colleagues to share their feelings on the job.
D.E.I. Goes Quiet

As corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs come under attack, some companies are rebranding their efforts.
In the N.F.L. and at Big Companies, Diversity Playbooks Face Hurdles

The league’s successes and struggles are playing out in hundreds of companies that have emulated its Rooney Rule in trying to hire more people from underrepresented groups.
Claudine Gay and the Fight Over D.E.I. in the C-suite

Claudine Gay’s resignation as Harvard president is adding to the wider debate in boardrooms over diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
D.E.I. and Donor Pressures Weigh on Harvard

The resignation of Claudine Gay as Harvard’s president reopens the debate over who should run America’s elite universities.
Dhonielle Clayton Is Working to Make the Book World More Diverse

Her solution? A packaging business that sells ideas for commercial genre fiction featuring characters from broadly diverse backgrounds.
Mideast War Pushes Companies to Extend Diversity Programs to Faith Groups

Workers are asking employers to respond to rising Islamophobia and antisemitism. But office discussions about religion are complicated.
As DEI Gains Ground, Identifying as Religious at Work Does, Too

Secular companies have invited employees to bring their “whole selves” to work. That increasingly includes their religion.