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  2. "As a black woman working in corporate America for 20 years, I share similar stories of many women and women of color [in] gender inequality, microaggression based on race and general bigotry, and ...

  3. Which US companies are pulling back on diversity initiatives?

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    A number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the ...

  4. Occupational sexism - Wikipedia

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    An example. One example of this in action is the expectancy value model. This model describes how expectancies may be linked to gender discrimination in occupations. For example, women are expected by society to be more successful in health-related fields while men are expected to be more successful in science-related fields.

  5. Affirmative action in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Critics of affirmative action assert that while supporters define diversity as "heterogeneous in meaningful ways, for example, in skill set, education, work experiences, perspectives on a problem, cultural orientation, and so forth", the implementation is often solely based on superficial factors including gender, race and country of origin. [135]

  6. Three women leading the charge for equality in the workplace

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    In honor of Women's Equality Day Wednesday, we're highlighting three notable women making strides for females in the workforce. Sheryl Sandberg is COO of Facebook and the author of "Lean In: Women ...

  7. Employment discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Because high concentrations of women work in these fields (34.8% of employed women of color and 5.1% of white women as private household workers, 21.6% and 13.8% working in service jobs, 9.3% and 3.7% as agricultural workers, and 8.1% and 17.2% as administrative workers), "nearly 45% of all employed women, then, appear to have been exempt from ...

  8. Opinion: The Workplace Is Making Black Women Sick. Here ... - AOL

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    Workplace discrimination impacts all aspects of Black women’s health ― physical, mental and financial. This is a crisis that must be solved, and it will take a data-driven, methodical, multi ...

  9. Prejudice - Wikipedia

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    For example, James J. Gibson, a founder of ecological psychology, believes that human evolutionary success is enhanced by the ability to analyze social costs and benefits so that humans can recognize and functionally respond to threats and opportunities, and that errors in judgment will be biased toward minimizing costs to reproductive fitness ...