Links

Useful websites and organizations

http://diversitywoman.com/
Website for national women's business diversity magazine (I had to put this first—I'm the editor!)

http://www.diversityinc.com/
Diversity Inc is considered by many as the gold standard of general interest diversity magazines.

http://www.diversitybestpractices.com/index.aspx
Diversity Best Practices offers an array of services to corporate clients, including resources, studies, seminars, webinars and much more. A good resource.

http://www.diversityweb.org/
This is a great diversity site for college and university educators. It's sponsored by the Association of American Colleges & Universities.

http://www.catalyst.org/
Catalyst is the leading research organization on women in business.

http://nawbo.org/index.cfm
NAWBO, the National Association of Women Business Owners, has 80 chapters across the country.

http://www.diversity-executive.com/
Diversity Executive is a magazine and website with strong content. Bonus—sign up for a free subscription to the magazine.

http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com/default.asp
The Multicultural Advantage is a terrific source of information on workforce diversity with a free newsletter jam-packed with resources and news.

http://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/Diversity/Pages/default.aspx
Workforce diversity resources from the Society for Human Resource Management.

http://www.diversityworld.com/Diversity/organizations.htm
This is a great clearinghouse site for many diversity-focused organizations, from affiliation groups, to legal to job hunting and recruiting resources.

Thought provoking and informative blogs:

Currently, there isn't a critical mass of solid diversity blogs (unfortunately, many of the so-called diversity blogs seem to rant and rave about race, sex and gender politics). Here's a few and hopefully the pickings will increase and I'll update this section periodically.

http://www.carmenvankerckhove.com/
Carmen Van Kerchove writes and speaks about race and diversity for a number of publications, including the New York Times, USA Today, NPR and CNN.

http://www.theglasshammer.com/
The Glass Hammer is a blog for women executives in the six-figure income range. It has a good mix of aggregation and timely site-initiated posts.

http://www.racewire.org
This blog, produced by Colorlines, a website on race and politics, takes a decidedly political and opinionated stance on the issues of the day regarding race, discrimination and diversity in America.

Think pieces:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901/end-of-whiteness
The January/February 2009 Atlantic featured a provocative article, "The End of White America? "

As author Hua Hsu writes in the introduction:

"The Election of Barack Obama is just the most startling manifestation of a larger trend: the gradual erosion of "whiteness" as the touchstone of what it means to be American. If the end of white America is a cultural and demographic inevitability, what will the new mainstream look like-and how will white Americans fit into it? What will it mean to be white when whiteness is no longer the norm? And will a post-white America be less racially divided—or more so?"

http://www.bidiversity.com/2009/02/interview-stereotyping-undermines-women/
"Interviewing Stereotypes Undermine Women"

What does it take? A recent study revealed the following:

Walk into a job interview, confident and competent, and yet modest, and women candidates will often be less sought after than similarly well-qualified men. Yet come across as unambiguously competitive, capable and ambitious and you risk putting off the hiring panel just as much.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Read on.