Women, work, and economic growth : leveling the playing field by Despite significant progress in recent decades, labor markets across the world remain divided along gender lines, and progress toward gender equality seems to have stalled. The challenges of growth, job creation, and inclusion are closely intertwined. This volume brings together key research by IMF economists on issues related to gender and macroeconomics.
Leading diversity in the 21st century by New frameworks are needed to understand how various groups such as women, Hispanics, African Americans, Millennials, LGBTQ, and persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder develop effective working relationships with their supervisors. This volume brings together top scholars in the field to address these segments of the workforce and offer practical advice for application.
Breaking Through Gridlock by Using enlightening exercises and rich examples, Breaking through Gridlock helps us become aware of the role we unwittingly play in getting conversations stuck. It empowers us to share what really matters - with anyone, anywhere - so that together we can create positive change in our families, organizations, communities, and society.
The Key to the Door by This book highlights the stories of some of the first black students at the University of Virginia. This inspiring account of resilience and transformation offers a diversity of experiences and perspectives through first-person narratives of black students during the University of Virginia's era of incremental desegregation.
Building Blocks of Workplace Inclusion by Attaining a diverse workforce today is not as difficult as it used to be. Some organizations think that having "one of each" -- a woman, a person with a disability, someone from a religious minority means that you are inclusive. Wrong. All it means is that you have a wide variety of people who may have divergent perspectives working for you.
Queer Brown Voices by Comprising essays and oral history interviews that present the experiences of fourteen activists across the United States and in Puerto Rico, the book offers an inclusive perspective on the history of LGBT mobilization and activism.
School Success for Kids with Autism by By outlining the best practices found in today's classrooms, School Success for Kids With Autism describes how parents and teachers can work together to create nurturing, supportive, and effective classroom environments from preschool to high school.
Race on the Brain by In this book, Jonathan Kahn argues that implicit bias has grown into a master narrative of race relations--one with profound, if unintended, negative consequences for law, science, and society. Race on the Brain challenges us all to engage more thoughtfully and more democratically in the task of promoting racial justice and inclusivity.
We Gon' Be Alright by In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies. He argues that resegregation is the unexamined condition of our time, the undoing of which is key to moving the nation forward to racial justice and cultural inclusivity.
Gen Z @ Work by A generations expert teams up with his seventeen-year-old son to introduce the next influential demographic group to join the workforce--Generation Z. Ahead of the curve, Gen Z @ Work is the first comprehensive, serious look at what the next generation of workers looks like, and what that means for the rest of us.
I'm Still Here by She grew up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, and has spent her life navigating America's racial divide as a writer, a speaker, and an expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice, in stories that bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabric.
Has the Gay Movement Failed? by The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress, argues Martin Duberman, has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative. Acknowledging the elimination of some of the most discriminatory policies that plagued earlier generations, he takes note of the cost--the sidelining of radical goals on the way to achieving more normative inclusion.
Creating Gender Inclusive Schools Creating Gender Inclusive Schools is one of four films in the Youth & Gender Media Project, which together demonstrate how to reach every member of a school community--students, teachers, parents and administrators--to help them create educational settings that welcome all young people, regardless of the where they fall on the spectrum of gender identity and expression
Defiant Lives The Rise Of The Disability Rights Movement A triumphant film that traces the origins of the world-wide disability rights movement. It tells the stories of the individuals who bravely put their lives on the line to create a better world where everyone is valued and can participate.
My So-Called Enemy : Celebrating Diversity, Interfaith and Intercultural Understanding "My So-Called Enemy" follows six courageous Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls who participated in a cross-cultural women's leadership program in the U.S. and documents how the experience of knowing their "enemies" as human beings meets with the realities of their lives back home in the Middle East over the next seven years.
Woman's Representation In The Media The program focuses on four areas: the reclaimed history of women who created media, the media portrayal of women, women's inclusion in the media workforce and how men perceive media differently than women which affects what we read, see and hear from the media.
Maine Girls : Teens Bridge Ethnic & Cultural Divides Over the course of 8 weeks, a diverse group of girls at South Portland High School learn what it takes - and what it means - to make genuine friendships with people who don't look or live the same way that they do. Leading by example, these teenage girls pave the way for greater empathy at their school and in doing so, encourage other girls to step up and do the same in their own communities throughout the United States.
In Jackson Heights One of America's Most Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the United States and the world. The people who live in Jackson Heights, in their cultural, racial and ethnic diversity, are representative of the new wave of immigrants to America. This film spotlights the daily life of the people in this community--their businesses, community centers, religions, and political, cultural and social lives--and the conflict between maintaining ties to traditions of the countries of origin and the need to learn and adapt to American ways and values.