Series: What is Equity in the Workplace? Part 1Workplace Equity Partners situates "equity" at the start of the discussion on purpose. Decades of diversity efforts have fallen short, led to tokenism, and often actually worsened the representation of identities that regularly face discrimination in leadership roles. Inclusiveness is starting to take center stage, and there is a new lexicon of "belonging" and other terms aimed at drawing focus away from visible diversity as the measure of success. Some schools of thought wil
The Trouble with Merit Is...Okay, this gave me a Kelly Clarkson ear worm and I'm sitting here belting soulful lyrics. Today's topic, on this election day when our aspirations for a meritocracy are greatest, can elicit the same soulful angst... The idea of merit is built in to the US "bootstrap" culture (this is the belief system which, despite evidence, hangs our motivations on the idea that those who work hard get ahead). We've culturally bought into the idea that merit - the quality of being worthy -