For decades, the corporate world has run with a simple story: Diversity drives performance. Lately, though, the conventional wisdom has been challenged, and for good reason: Independent, peer-reviewed ...

Back when the organization where I work, TechSpeed, was founded in 2002, it was among the very few women-owned and led data service companies in the industry. I’d like to tell you that things have ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, as part of a coalition of 16 attorneys general, issued guidance to help ...

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Top Education Department officials during the president’s prior administration routinely hailed diversity efforts. Now employees who participated in them have faced reprisals. By Erica L. Green and ...

Diversity is more than just a corporate buzzword, it's a business strategy and guiding principle for companies that seek to live their mission and values every day. A diverse and inclusive workforce ...

The “anti-woke” backlash has unnerved business leaders, but companies are not backtracking on their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion, a new survey shows. The vast majority – 96% – of ...

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 ...

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs have become a divisive topic in today's workplaces. Some don't see DEI's applicability; some see it as "reverse discrimination"; and some see it as ...

The project builds on a similar survey conducted in 2022 that examined barriers to entry and progression within the industry.