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Age bias complaints surge in bad economy MSNBC Share     After getting laid off from her job at a private school, Joyce Kalivas-Griffin was heartened to see virtually the same job open up at another school in her area. Kalivas-Griffin, 57, applied for the job, but heard nothing. Then the job was posted again, and she applied again, this time submitting a resume that she had edited to mask her age. The second time, she said she was called in for an interview, but eventually lost out to a younger candidate. Kalivas-Griffin doesn't think that the other candidate was any less qualified, but she does think that her own age played a role in not getting the job. More
Women often ignored in research trials UPI Share
Medical researchers say U.S. women remain vastly underrepresented in biomedical research compared with men. Scientists from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago say despite significant differences in the way females experience many diseases, medications and therapies — and despite federal mandates to include women in studies — there is much that still needs to be done. More How diversity management can begin at home DiversityInc Share
For MasterCard’s Donna Alligood Johnson, what role does diversity play in family discussions? What inspiration has Tyco International's Lydia Mallett drawn from her parents' experiences during the civil-rights movement? Read more about how their families' diversity activism shaped their careers. More
The 'end of men' isn't the end of racism ColorLines magazine Share
Men have it hard these days. The recession took their jobs, be it construction or finance. They're not attending or graduating from college very much. They're having to take business classes that tell them to work on their communication skills. Women, by comparison, are flooding college campuses, holding down most of the country's jobs, and leading a couple of countries around the globe. This is the picture of gender relations drawn by Hanna Rosin in the latest issue of "The Atlantic." "The postindustrial economy is indifferent to men's size and strength," she writes. "The attributes that are most valuable today — social intelligence, open communication, the ability to sit still and focus — are, at a minimum, not predominantly male." More Race for Opportunity report finds 'blatant and shocking racism' still exists in the workplace HR Magazine Share
Blatant racism is still 'far to prevalent' in the workplace, with the conditions unchanged since the 1970s for some employees, according to a new report from Race for Opportunity. More
Program guides minority students to pharmacy St. Louis Post-Dispatch Share
Two years ago, Mario Coronado was considering an engineering or pre-med major in college. Now at 18, Coronado has a full-tuition scholarship to St. Louis College of Pharmacy worth about $130,000, and he's guaranteed a job at Barnes-Jewish Hospital's pharmacy for six years after he graduates. He wouldn't have received the scholarship — or had the desire to be a pharmacist — without attending the BESt Summer Pharmacy Institute in 2008 and 2009. More Climate of uncertainty for gay rights Newsweek Share
There have been gains on issues large and small, from hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples to the passage of hate-crimes legislation and congressional votes that could open the door to repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" ban on openly gay soldiers. Two of the country's top legal minds, Ted Olson and David Boies, have just finished closing arguments in a highly publicized trial seeking to overturn California's ban on gay marriage, and the State Department just made it possible for transgendered citizens to have passports reflecting their sexual identity without undergoing gender-reassignment surgery. More
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