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Breaking Through: How Minorities can Break - or Bend - Corporate Career Barriers

Who’s that in the executive suite? It’s probably (still) a white man. Ninety-five percent of all executive-level positions in the U.S. are filled by non-female, non-minority individuals, according to David Thomas and John Gabarro, Harvard professors and authors of Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America - a study about the other […]

Learning and Skills Council finds diversity and equality workers need a professional association to help define standards and training

By Louisa Peacock
Diversity practitioners are calling for a new professional association to help them to establish industry standards and define proper career paths, according to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC).
A report commissioned by the LSC, due to be published next week, has revealed that despite educational and vocational training, diversity experts feel they cannot […]

Maintaining A Diverse Workforce

By Carl G. Cooper
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP
When I wrote for this special section on diversity this time last year, I had recently been appointed to the post of Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP (K&L). K&L was recognized as the first major law firm to make an appointment of this […]

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