Archive for 'Diversity in the Workplace' Category
Employers Go All-Out For Minority Undergrads
1 November 2007By Pepi Sappal
Twenty-one-year-old Madeline Sola hasn’t graduated from college yet. But the mechanical-engineering major already has her first employer lined up.
If she wants it, Sola has a job waiting for her at Pratt & Whitney, an aircraft-engine, space-propulsion-system and gas-turbine maker in East Hartford, Conn., when she graduates from Massachusetts’s Worcester Polytechnic Institute next year. […]
The Art of Diversity
18 October 2007Culture in America is likely to be spelled these days with a hyphen. Watch it on TV. There’s Cuban-American singing star Gloria Estefan in a music video on MTV Latino. See it at the cinema. The film version of The Joy Luck Club, based on the popular novel by Chinese-American author Amy Tan, could be […]
Ignoring Diversity, Runways Fade to White
18 October 2007By Guy Trebay
IN the days of blithe racial assumptions, flesh crayons were the color of white people. “Invisible” makeup and nude pantyhose were colored in the hues of Caucasian skin. The decision by manufacturers to ignore whole segments of humanity went unchallenged for decades before the civil rights movement came along and nonwhite consumers started […]