Diversity and equality

The pandemic has disproportionately affected employees with disabilities.

Algorithms might just absorb the same prejudices employers are trying to avoid if they don’t acknowledge racial biases.

The first step in improving workplace diversity is de-stigmatizing financial help.

This type of legislation undermines companies’ ability to recruit workers and retain existing talent in those states, the executives said.

Unchecked, this trend could potentially stunt female workers’ ability to succeed professionally and financially long-term.

The movement against unconscious bias training, once a key element of employers’ diversity and inclusion strategies, is growing.

Citigroup hired Goldman Sachs Group’s Erika Irish Brown to help oversee efforts to diversify its workforce.

Bank of America pledged an additional $250 million toward its push to advance racial equality, adding more programs that advocate for Asian Americans to its existing initiatives.

For some families, the benefits expansions companies are implementing are still not enough.

As communities begin to build back their finances after the pandemic, this company wants to close the gap in equitable lending.

Salary.com’s toolkit gives employers insights into why pay gaps exist within their organizations and provides resources and solutions.

The data show a jobs recession that was hardest on women without college degrees and Black and Hispanic women, and was pretty tough on men without college degrees and Hispanic men too.

Objective and fair recruitment and hiring can be facilitated by scientific implementation of progressive technology.

Workers need help focusing, organizing themselves and finding the resilience that they need to keep coming back every day to work.

Black and other minority groups in the U.S. experience more illness, worse outcomes and higher rates of premature death compared with their white peers.

Companies that promote greater diversity within the organization have employees who are more creative and innovative.

Policy changes that result in more women entering the workforce, like those that bolster female access to secondary education, child care, and flexible work arrangements, have the potential to “light a fire” under global growth.

Telehealth benefits are an accessible way to offer benefits to at-risk employee groups.

The goal is to ensure the company meets commitments, which include increasing Black employment to population parity at all levels of the business.

Women and workers of color are experiencing the worst job losses as the coronavirus continues to rage.