Professional Development Resources

Glassdoor’s webinar provides an excellent road map for fostering diversity and inclusion in your hiring practices. The session is facilitated by Glassdoor and includes employment branding speakers from Dell and The Washington Post.

At a time when many companies are feeling pressured to report on and reduce gender inequality within the workforce, a Stanford sociologist is finding success with a step-by-step method for eliminating the bias at the root of the problem.

The report reaffirms the global relevance of the link between diversity—defined as a greater proportion of women and a more mixed ethnic and cultural composition in the leadership of large companies—and company financial outperformance.

McKinsey, the consulting company, analyzed companies in the S&P 500 to recognize organizations in the United States leading the diversification of their Boards.

SIMMA LIEBERMAN is the Principal of The Inclusionist, a human resources practice of Simma Lieberman Associates. She is also a guest contributor to EmployDiversityNetwork.com

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, Emmy Noether. Noether’s Theorem is regarded as one of the most important mathematical theorems in the world, influencing the evolution of modern physics.

The number of female executives in the UK’s top companies remains stubbornly low. Vivienne Nunis speaks to Heather McGregor, dean of the Herriot Watt Business School and Sue Unerman, co-author of The Glass Wall, to hear what women can do to get a seat at the table in big business.

Activist Danielle Moss talks about the backlash to the #MeToo movement highlighting abuse of women, while former gang member Eldra Jackson talks about toxic masculinity. Author of Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly, asks why men are allowed to be angry while women are not.

Does STEM still have a problem with women? Manuela Saragosa speaks to Dr Jess Wade, a physicist at Imperial College in London, and soil microbial ecologist Kelly Ramirez, co-founder of 500 Women Scientists.

The Everyday Conversations podcast series provides a platform for two guests from different backgrounds to share stories, thoughts on race, perspective on current social issues and pop culture happenings. We show that conversations about race are possible, urgent and essential for survival.

The BBC World Service produced this half-hour long podcast about the history of computer programming. Few people know that for nearly 200 years computing was a woman’s world.