Welcome to Diversity Briefings: 11/19/2010
Volume 1, Issue 19. Published Each Monday - Friday
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Diversity speaker talks sexuality, racial profiling
The Kentucky Kernal reports: “I was falsely accused, arrested and sat in jail for 30 days only to have all the charges dropped because they didn’t have any evidence,” Jonathan Perry said. “I felt like my civil rights were being violated, and I’m still dealing with it two months later. It taught me to be more vigilant.”
--“It was the most traumatic experience of my entire life,” said Perry. “For law enforcement agencies to arrest people simply because they’re black — it has a profound impact on how I feel about people.”
http://kykernel.com/2010/11/17/diversity-speaker-talks-sexuality-racial-profiling/
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Other generations growing weary of Baby Boomers
USA Today reports: “Boomers have certainly sucked up a lot of cultural oxygen," says Leonard Steinhorn, 54, a communication professor at American University in Washington and author of The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy. "They are outsized. They changed America in deep and profound ways," he says. "It's natural for other generations to think they didn't get their time in the sun." Other generations tend to roll their eyes at some perceived Baby Boomer traits.
http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/parenting-family/2010-11-18-boomerloathing18_CV_N.htm
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Air Products among 'Best Places to Work' for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees
Allentown Morning Call reports: Trexlertown gas-maker Air Products and several other companies with operations in the Lehigh Valley have been recognized as "Best Places to Work" from the Human Rights Campaign, a civil rights group advocating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. Air Products, the region's third-largest employer, is among 337 businesses that received top marks in the group's 9th annual survey, which analyzed and rated the work policies affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgencer workers at 618 of the country's largest businesses and law firms.
http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-allentown-air-products-rights-20101118,0,6869953.story
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Family farming as the backbone to ensure countries’ “food sovereignty”
From Merco Press: Representatives from Mercosur, Africa, China, India and multilateral organizations such as the United Nations [have] called for the right to “food sovereignty”, thus preventing the international corporations from taking control of the seeds’ market.
http://en.mercopress.com/2010/11/18/family-farming-as-the-backbone-to-ensure-countries-food-sovereignty?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily
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Phyliss Frye, who fought for transgender rights, is now a judge
From The Houston Chroncile: Thirty years ago, Phyliss Frye, a longtime activist for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender causes, could have been arrested for wearing women's clothing in the Houston City Council chamber.Frye, a transgender Houston attorney born as Phillip Frye, fought back tears earlier this week as the mayor appointed her to a municipal bench in the same room where she helped repeal Houston's "cross-dressing ordinance" in 1980."I almost started crying, because I remembered 31 years ago, in that very same chamber, I was subject to arrest," Frye said.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7300931.html
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Museum suspends expedition to meet uncontacted tribes in the Paraguayan Chaco
Merco Press reports: London's Natural History Museum has suspended a planned expedition to a remote region of Paraguay after protests that it might disturb one of the world's last uncontacted tribes. Campaigners had warned that the expedition to the Chaco region was likely to encounter the Ayoreo people. Contact might expose them to infectious diseases that could wipe them out.
http://en.mercopress.com/2010/11/19/museum-suspends-expedition-to-meet-uncontacted-tribes-in-the-paraguayan-chaco?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily
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Smokers need not apply: Is hiring ban trend of the future?
The Christian Science Monitor reports: Employers have confined smokers to designated areas, moved smoking areas outside buildings, and limited smoking breaks. Now, some companies are opting to push smokers out of the workplace altogether.That's the case with the Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA), an employer of 45 that announced earlier this month it would no longer hire people who smoke.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2010/1117/Smokers-need-not-apply-Is-hiring-ban-trend-of-the-future
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Civil rights leader John Lewis to get presidential medal
From Reuters: Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights leader beaten unconscious by Alabama state troopers in 1965 during a march for voting rights, is to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.The medal, to be given early next year, is the country's highest civilian award and other honorees on President Barack Obama's list include former President George H. W. Bush, writer Maya Angelou, businessman Warren Buffet and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AH3J720101118
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What Can Bosses Do About Corporate Bullying?
MyFox Houston reports: How bad is corporate bullying? Recent statistics show one in three American workers are victims. Twenty percent of bullying crosses the line into harassment which then becomes illegal. Sixty percent of corporate bullies are men. They tend to bully males and females equally, however; studies show female bullies are more likely to target other females on the job.
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/business/101117-what-can-bosses-do-about-corporate-bullying
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Year of the Woman? Eight Jobs That Are Still Sexist
Newsweek reports: In March 1970, 46 NEWSWEEK employees became the first group of media women to sue for employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Time, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, and a number of other publications would follow. But 40 years later, how much has changed? We may have two female anchors on network television, but in print journalism, male bylines still outnumber female bylines by a rate of seven to one—despite women being the majority of journalism graduates since 1977.
http://education.newsweek.com/index.html
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The Discipline of Diversity
The Spec reports: In the olden days, universities were viewed as places where students learned to think. In large part, they did so through listening to a range of opinions and determining for themselves how they felt about any given issue.It appears that is, increasingly, no longer the case. It appears that, these days, if one disagrees with someone’s opinion, one simply shuts them down, makes them go away. And in doing so, one robs others of the opportunity to hear that divergent view.
http://www.thespec.com/opinion/article/276931--the-discipline-of-diversity
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2-star, USNA professor clash on diversity
Navy Times reports: A Naval Academy alumni event grew contentious Tuesday when a two-star admiral clashed with an academy professor on issues of diversity and admissions standards. Bruce Fleming, an English professor who has taught at the academy for 24 years, said affirmative action and the pursuit of a competitive Division I football team led to the “corruption of the morale of the Naval Academy,” in remarks as guest speaker to the Greater Washington Chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/11/navy-academy-diversity-111710w/
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Checking Out The Job Market – Diversity Checklist in Hand
Johanna and her academic advisor are talking about Johanna’s future. As the end of fall term approaches, the senior transgender accounting student, born as “John,” is starting to look for a good internship with a company that embraces diversity. “How can I really learn what a company really does, versus what a company says they do, with respect to diversity,” she asks her advisor.
--“Especially, when reality is that diversity hasn't really happened in most companies, and progress remains slow?”
--Johanna’s advisor understands her student’s apprehension, and adds her own perception, that by not developing a diverse workforce from the top down African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and Asian Americans are too often relegated to lower-skilled, lower-pay positions and are not able to fulfill their true potential. A poor economy has made this situation worse, she adds.
--“But some businesses are finally recognizing that diversity contributes to the bottom line in so many ways. They are finally understanding how diversity actually makes it easier to retain good employees or lower costs by developing skills in-house, and developing a reputation that helps attract new employees. This is especially important as the economy starts to recover and the demand for skilled labor slowly starts to increase,” the advisor states.
Susan Klopfer continues – http://diversitythoughts.blogspot.com/p/looking-for-diversity-friendly-whats.html
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