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Corporate D&I

- January 22, 2021
Are businesses becoming more diverse and inclusive?
Damian Maldonado speaks with employee Ayesha Brewer in 2018 in Boulder, Colorado. (Getty Images/The Denver Post/Helen H. Richardson)
Although corporate America spends billions annually on diversity and inclusion (D&I) programs, most companies have not made many gains in hiring a diverse workforce. An influential 2019 study by Coqual, a New York think tank, found that corporate America's efforts to increase diversity are failing, in part because of a reluctance to discuss race at the workplace. Efforts to improve D&I programs took on greater urgency in the wake of George Floyd's death in May and the nationwide protests against systemic racism that followed.
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1938–1967Congress and the White House take action against employment discrimination.
1987–PresentCorporations take the lead on diversity and inclusion training.
   
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Do corporate diversity and inclusion efforts work?

Pro

Theia Smith
Director, D&I Consulting at PwC.

Con

Mike Gonzalez
Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation.
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