What groups/businesses do you believe need to address this issue?
Starbucks in mentioned in the TED presentation. Various police departments are called out repeatedly regarding their lack of diversity and overall insensitivity to equality & racism.
"To address structural racism, you need to change structures.
If a company faces challenges surrounding diversity, typically, it's because subtle and not-so-subtle forms of bias are constantly being transmitted through their basic business systems -- through hiring, through performance evaluations, through access to opportunities. So we need to stop trying to fix the women and the people of color. We need to fix the business systems."
WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN
"Joan C. Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Law, Hastings Foundation Chair and Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings Law. She is one of the most cited scholar in her field and is the author (or co-author) of a dozen books and over a hundred academic articles. She holds an honorary PhD from Utrecht University in the Netherlands for her research on workplace bias."
https://www.ted.com/speakers/joan_c_williams
PATTERNS OF BIAS
PROVE IT AGAIN
THE TIGHTROPE
TUG-OF-WAR
THE MATERNAL WALL
RACIAL STEREOTYPES
BIPOC-Black, Indigenous and other people of color.
Michelle Obama writes of the many adjustments she made growing up; changing the way she spoke depending on the audience which, "extended myself over lines of race, gender and class".
"Why should individual people have to try to change themselves when, really and truly, it's their workplace that needs to change?"
The Light We Carry
Michelle Obama
