Diversity and equality

Pandemic job losses have disproportionately impacted minorities.

During the pandemic, women are pushing for wage equality and standing out in the benefits community.

Amazon’s lack of racial and gender diversity in its corporate ranks is common throughout the technology industry.

Benefits, professional development opportunities and unconscious bias training are all important tools to address workplace diversity.

More than one-third of parents, mostly women, have yet to return to jobs they lost largely because there’s no one to look after their kids.

The subtle signs of age discrimination can have a devastating impact on a woman’s career.

The Big Four firm created the program to give more people of color the opportunity to become CPAs.

As part of its new metrics, McDonald’s is targeting 35% of U.S. senior management to be from underrepresented groups by 2025, up from 29% currently.

Two former employees alleged they experienced racial and religious discrimination while working at the firm.

The job site’s users can analyze salary data based on race and gender, and they also will be able see how people from different groups rank companies on metrics such as workplace culture and promotional opportunities.

The bank said the new program is part of its diversity strategy of doubling campus hiring of analysts from historically black colleges by 2025.

More than 2.1 million women have left the workforce completely since February 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

An organization connects vision-impaired job seekers with employment at companies looking to diversify their workforce.

While Aetna and several other insurance companies do cover the cost of gender-reassignment surgeries, the pool of companies offering coverage is declining.

Blackstone Launchpad will add 45 colleges and universities in the next five years for a total of 75 to their student entrepreneurship initiative.

Employers have big plans to recruit more workers in 2021. But deciding where they’ll work is the most recent workplace debate.

Firms owned by Asian, Black or Latino Americans were more likely to report “fair” or “poor” financial conditions in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.

Gap is promising to start new programs and expand existing ones in order to increase representation in its workforce.

Almost half of employees plan to look for a new job this year and 82% of employers plan to make new hires, according to Monster’s most recent job report.

More than one-third of parents — mostly women — have yet to return to jobs they lost, largely because there’s no one to look after their kids.