Black History Month: let’s celebrate history, diversity and inclusion #7 📜📖
The latest news about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
Hello Agents of Change,
On Black History Month, it’s a good occasion to start the conversation about equity, diversity and inclusion. It’s also the time to:
1/ Remember
2/ Educate
3/ Celebrate
I give you to start this newsletter 5 ways to celebrate black history and support diversity and inclusion at work.
- Invite black guest speakers to facilitate Diversity and Inclusion dialogues
- Support Black businesses
- Donate to a Black organization
- Amplify Black voices, promote black movies, art, books
- Discover or rediscover black influential leaders that made history during lunch time or bappy hour because knowledge is power.
Speaking of which, have a look on the Ulta Beauty Diversity & Inclusion push: MUSE (Magnify, Uplift, Support, Empower) project in order to put a focus on Black players in the beauty industry. This short video is just beautiful.
As every week, you will find in the newsletter a series of articles and video to help expand your knowledge of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. These resources may also help you to identify how to understand in order to act better. Diversity is a state indicating plurality while inclusion is an action, a choice to include people in a group that respects and values their differences. It allows them to express their true self, to realize their full potential (giving them what they need: Equity) and give the best of themselves for the realization of a common project in a psychological safe environment.
Enjoy your reading time!
Take care and see you soon ✌.
Best regards,
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Articles to Read — Hot Topics
Diversity & Inclusion ✨
Ulta Beauty’s commitments:
1 — Doubling the number of Black-owned brands available on their shelves by the end of the year + promising to invest $4 million in marketing these brands + $20 million on a larger campaign to reach out to customers of color and other underrepresented communities
2 — Instituting extra quarterly training for its in-store staff, including the workers in the salons starting in March. They will focus on combatting unconscious bias in hopes of improving the shopping experience for customers.
3 — Continuing to recruit people from underrepresented backgrounds, as well as helping them advance within the company in a meaningful way
- Yeah! A new Diversity & Inclusion podcast “Diversity Talks” centered around diversity, inclusion and intercultural competence. On iTunes, Spotify and Youtube
- Despite an improvement in diversity within the Navy over the last 20 years. Work on diversity and inclusion needs to be done to bring more leaders of color into the Navy’s ranks
“About 77% of the Navy’s officers are White and retention is an issue for Hispanics, Asian Americans and women.”
“The task force indicated that the names of some ships have been linked to Confederate officers and White supremacist ideologies but there is no internal process or effort in place to review the names. The group has recommended the Navy launch a formal assessment.” By Nicole Chavez, Barbara Starr and Ellie Kaufman, CNN
The firm targets gender equality. They want to increase female representation in the workforce and in executive management to 25% by 2025 — up from 19% and 12% in Siemens Gamesa’s 2019 financial year.
Gender Equality ⚖
Countries like Ireland, Portugal and German have shown their commitment to the defense of gender equality.
Mori, an 83-year-old former prime minister, said Wednesday during a gathering of the Japanese Olympic Committee that women tend to talk too much in meetings as they have “a strong sense of rivalry.”
- L’Oreal recognized, for the fourth consecutive year, in Bloomberg’s 2021 Gender-equality Index (GEI) based on criteria such as female leadership, gender pay parity and inclusive culture.
In 2019, women represented 54% of L’Oréal Group’s workforce. 54% of the Board of Directors and 50% of the Executive Committee were also women.
Click here to view the full Women on Boards Gender Diversity Index
Thoughts 💭 — Tips 💡
- If we do not address the problems of bias encountered in artificial intelligence, this could continue to hinder efforts to strengthen diversity, equity and inclusion efforts
Exhibit 1: Automated decision-making using sensitive data such as information on race, gender or familial status can affect individuals’ eligibility for housing, employment, or other core services — the table lists the various spheres of life where automated decision-making can cause injury and notes whether each sort of harmful effect is illegal or unfair —
Anupama Rames· Investing
Top Videos To Watch
1/ Beauty Muses / Ulta Beauty
Ulta Beauty Diversity & Inclusion push: MUSE, their commitment to Magnify, Uplift, Support and Empower Black voices in beauty.
3/ MAKE IT BLACK The new campagn by Pull Up For Change
They advocate for the redefinition of Black. Make it BLACK is an initiative developed by Pull Up For Change. The program partners with leading Brands to showcase the beauty of Black and 100% of the net proceeds are allocated to the Pull Up For Change Small Business Impact Fund.
Their motto:
“BLACK IS — BOLD | LUXURIOUS | CHIC | TIMELESS | EDGY | STYLISH | SOPHISTICATED | UNIVERSAL | FORMAL | EXCLUSIVE | REFINED | RHYTHM.”
2/Equality Diversity & Inclusion in 2021 — WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
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Cheers,
Dolores
