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Health bill will iron out disparities The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Share     The fractious debate over health care has obscured the promise this bold legislation has to reduce health disparities in the United States. In 2000, this country set a goal of eliminating disparities in health among different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups. Health care reform is needed in this country for everyone, regardless of race, but I believe it is also critical to our achieving the overarching goal of eliminating disparities in health. More Related story: Obama signs health care overhaul bill, with a flourish (The New York Times)
NIH wants new ideas on workforce diversity Science Career Magazine Share
National Institutes of Health (NIH) wants a few really new and different ideas on how to achieve more ethnic diversity in the biomedical sciences, and is prepared to pay up to $10 million for those ideas. Our colleague Jeff Mervis on the Science Insider blog yesterday reported on a new NIH Director's Pathfinder Award aimed to get those breakthroughs. More How a Supreme Court decision is making age discrimination harder than ever to prove Newsweek Share
As if finding and holding on to a job wasn't hard enough. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, there's been a 17 percent jump in the number of age-discrimination complaints filed since the recession began in 2007. Federal law is supposed to protect workers 40 and older, but proving you've been denied a job or laid off to make way for younger and cheaper workers isn't easy. More Affirmative action hurts us all Kansas City Star Midwest Voices Share
In 1978, I applied to Kansas City law firms for employment, columnist M. Theresa Hupp writes. The hiring partner at one firm made me an offer. "We think it's about time we hired a woman lawyer," he said. The hiring partner at another firm rejected me because "we already hired our woman for the year." Those conversations taught me the good, the bad and the ugly of affirmative action. More
New tools to help achieve equality in the workplace XLN Telecom Share
A new benchmarking tool is to be introduced to allow businesses to find out how well they are tackling inequality at in the workplace. The National Equality Framework for Business will let businesses work out whether they are meeting minimum standards as well as giving them advice on creating a more diverse workplace and attracting a wide range of customers. More More men make harassment claims The Wall Street Journal Share
Since the start of the recession, a growing number of sexual harassment complaints have come from men. Some 16.4 percent of all sexual harassment claims — or 2,094 claims — were filed by men in fiscal 2009, up from 15.4 percent, or 1,869 claims, in fiscal 2006, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. More Diversity will change the face of the workplace Financial Post Share
By 2031 almost 26 percent of Canada's population will be foreign-born and 31 percent will be visible minorities, according to new projections released by Statistics Canada. Almost half of working age population will be either foreign-born or have at least one parent born in another country. In Metropolitan areas such as Toronto and Vancouver visible minorities will be the majority while their population will double in other Canadian cities. More |
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