As a consequence of Barilla’s chairman, Guido Barilla, making homophobic statements during a live interview the concrete damage of his words become evident. He said he would “never do [a commercial] with a homosexual family” and if gays did not like this, they could buy somebody else’s pasta.. Since then,
Zum morgigen Deutschen Diversity-Tag am 03. Juni stellt Michael Stuber die vollständig überarbeitete dritte Auflage des Standwerks „Diversity & Inclusion: Das Potenzial-Prinzip“ vor. Das Kompendium mit dem Untertitel „Das Beste aus 15 Jahren Forschung & Praxis“ ist bis 20. Juni zum Subskriptionspreis bestellbar.
Im Barocksaal der Thüringer Staatskanzlei in Erfurt zeichnete der bereits 1986 gegründete gewerkschaftsnahe Verein „Mach meinen Kumpel nicht an! – für Gleichbehandlung, gegen Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Rassismus e.V.“ das Engagement junger Menschen für Gleichbehandlung und gegen Rechtsextremismus und Intoleranz in der Arbeitswelt und Gesellschaft aus.
Some voices criticize the different national Diversity Charters for allowing companies to “green wash” their image by simply signing a document without really engaging in Diversity-Programmes. In order to make life more difficult for those free riders the French Diversity Charter interviews its members on an annual basis, last time in autumn 2013. Now the […]
Business Europe, the EU-level platform for employers’ associations, has created its first position paper on Diversity Management at the European workplace. The ten pages summary calls out several drivers, advantages and approaches for reaching a diverse, inclusive and hence more successful business culture.
The Republic of South Africa was the first country to ban discrimination based on all the core dimensions of Diversity, gender, race, age, disability, religion and sexual orientation, not just in the Civil Code but in their Constitution. This is one of the many enduring elements supporting diversity, respect and inclusion which the grand personality […]
Credit Suisse has launched a LGBT Equality Index, making it „the first index to track the equity performance of companies with LGBT-friendly policies,“ according to the bank’s announcement. The pursuit of profit is not the only reason for the new index. The bank also wants to raise awareness for the need to recognise sexual minorities […]
Combining the fight against climate change with the advancement of female participation, the new initiative “Women in Solar” sounds like a masterpiece in this respect. The initiative is aimed at engaging more women into roles within engineering and encourages female engineers to take up a career in the renewable energy sector. And to make the […]
The best established mantra about successful D&I work refers to executive leadership, role modelling and to sponsoring D&I departments and agendas. And the absence of this has become an easy excuse when progress becomes slow. That implies two questions: Who is responsible for providing the impetus so that top management support will be displayed and […]
Als neuntes Bundesland nach Berlin, Hamburg, Brandenburg, Bremen und Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein, Thüringen und Baden-Württemberg ist Niedersachsen der „Koalition gegen Diskriminierung“ beigetreten. Niedersachsens Ministerpräsident Stephan Weil (SPD) unterzeichnete gemeinsam mit der Leiterin der Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes, Christine Lüders, die Absichtserklärung „Offensive für eine diskriminierungsfreie Gesellschaft“.
