EDUCATE ME: Were DEI policies helping "others" more then US

[valet]

First let me say I'm pro laws that help Black people get an equal opportunity. With that said I've heard for many years that affirmative action for example were used to benefit white women more then us. Is this the same with DEI policies where WW, benefitted more then us?

 

[At30wecashout]

Someone, or me later, will come through with the numbers but DEI seemed to have overwhelmingly helped white women.

THAT SAID: I know of a handful of orgs including my own where a DEI department was built and suddenly we started seeing more black hires. When I joined a few years ago, It was me and a smattering of black women. In the following years, more black men. I can't speak to other races, but DEI (headed by a black woman) helped get folks in that probably would not have otherwise, and we are a well known institution world-wide.

 

[RamsayBolton]

All pro-black policies primarily help white women. Black Lives Matter donated more to white woman than any other demographic. Anything that helps other minorities in addition to us rather than focusing on us entirely we can do without.

Hope that clears things up

 

[Doctor Doom]

Almost every policy that has to do with fighting discrimination of any kind has helped white women tremendously

With the repeal of these DEI policies, you're gonna see a lot less women in any positions of substance

White women are their own worst enemy

 

[newarkhiphop]

yall maga cats too much

 

[Black Hans]

DEI is for WW, the Skittles, and illegal immigrants while legitimizing it with everything "being like black people's history in America"

I'm GLAD Trump is destroying that BS . Sick of black people being the Trojan Horse for these left wing demons.

 

[Amo Husserl]

Trump is rolling back protections initially won by black people on a federal level for federal jobs.
I can see these repeals having the effect of relaxing ethical considerations for hiring for regular jobs.
Discrimination will likely go up once the legal guardrails get taken down.

 

[Micky Mikey]

What does it really matter? Its being used as a justification to roll back protections that have been in place for almost a half a century. And its the intent behind why they're railing against DEI that's the real issue. It isn't about cutting the budget or becoming a 'merit' based system. Its about denigrating black people (and anyone who isn't white) and pushing the narrative that any black person in a position of prominence is unqualified. And the corporations who're rolling back their DEI initiatives are only doing so out of capitulation.

 

[Rakim Allah]

,friends

 

[Hey_zeus]

Of course like all our benefits. White woman and Latinos both ate off it at a higher clip than us

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

Black People Only Comprise 4% Of DEI Positions In The Workplace

According to a report, Black people only constitute 4% of DEI supervisory positions in the workforce compared to 76% of white people.

www.blackenterprise.com

Following the 2020 death of George Floyd, companies across various industries made announcement after announcement that they would invest in diversity and inclusion initiatives, often using the position of chief diversity officer to direct these efforts. A report from career site Zippia details that of these positions, only 4% of the roles were occupied by Black people in 2023.


According to Reyhan Ayas, a senior economist at Revelio Labs, this suggests that the pledges many companies issued post-George Floyd were not followed through with intent.

The Harvard Business Review took a look at why diversity programs failed in 2016, and they surmised that those programs fail because companies do not use data, which shows that the impact of bias or sensitivity training often does not last beyond a day or two, and can also inspire negative feelings. After companies instituted mandatory diversity training for managers, the percentage of Black, Latina, and women managers dropped by 9%, and Asian managers fell by 5%. They found that instituting voluntary training engenders much better results, with an increase of up to 13% in Black men and no decline in the number of Black women managers. The Harvard Business Review also found that among the things that served to increase diversity was a diversity task force, diversity managers, self-managed teams, and college recruiting focused on the groups companies want to hire and retain.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Going by the comments in this thread, I don't think posters actually know who all is included in DEI

 

[Samori Toure]

If us is "White women" then yes that is who was helped by DEI.

White women benefit most from affirmative action. So why do they oppose it?

People associate affirmative action with ending discrimination against people of color. But women are the greatest beneficiaries, scholars say.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Samori Toure]

Going by the comments in this thread, I don't think posters actually know who all is included in DEI

White women homos, immigrants, eveverybody except brehs.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

White women homos, immigrants, eveverybody except brehs.

We're included in DEI as well along with people with disabilities.

I know these things because my company has all different types of DEI groups.