Category: PDJ
Lincoln Financial’s three-year initiative seeks to celebrate communities and families, as well as the inspiring vision of the president for which it was named. President Abraham Lincoln left our country a tremendous legacy of freedom, opportunity, and equality—ideals Lincoln Financial celebrates on an ongoing basis. However, through 2015, a special three-year initiative called Lincoln’s Legacy… Read the full article
Meet Jack Andraka…medical entrepreneur, education activist, global change maker…and still in high school.
This Saturday marks ten years since Massachusetts became the first state in America where same-sex couples could marry. The state began issuing marriage licenses on May 17, 2004 following a landmark victory in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, the case filed by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) on behalf of seven same-sex couples.… Read the full article
While most fast-food chains were relieved to see the bill to increase minimum wage fail, the CEO of the largest chain in the world feels differently. No. It’s not McDonald’s CEO. It’s Subway founder and CEO, Fred DeLuca. DeLuca, who had previously warned that raising the minimum wage too quickly would be a “bad idea,” believes now that… Read the full article
There’s still time to participate in Profile in Diversity Journal’s 11th Annual Innovation Awards! We’re excited to once again honor organizations that are coming up with new ways to meet the challenges of an evolving workforce and share “what’s being tried out there” with our readers in order to encourage continued exploration. Over the years, companies have submitted innovations… Read the full article
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is compiling its annual list of companies across the United States that provide adoption benefits. The list will be announced in November during National Adoption Month, and will be published in the November 10, 2014, issue of Bloomberg Businessweek. All companies with adoption benefits are encouraged to apply by completing a… Read the full article
When a sentence ends in a question mark, the voice in your head goes up at the end with uncertainty? Even if it’s a statement, not a question, people will do this? That’s uptalk. And according to a recent study, women are guiltier of it than men. Thomas Linneman, a sociologist at William & Mary, studied 100… Read the full article
After more than 40 years, Wheel of Fortune recently welcomed its first-ever special needs contestant. On Wednesday, April 30, 21-year-old Trenton “Trent” Girone, who has both Asperger’s and Tourette Syndrome, began by solving the game’s first “toss-up” puzzle—“A Smashing Success”—and winning $1,000. #TeamTrent started trending during the episode, as viewers showed their support for Girone. A fan of the show… Read the full article
Pew Research recently took a look at government supported parental leave—both paid and unpaid—in 38 countries. The U.S. came in dead last.
The Family and Medical Leave Act enables employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for various kinds of family care without losing their jobs, but most people (read women—the caretakers in most families) simply can’t afford to do it—they can’t forego several weeks or months of income. And, of course, they risk sidetracking their careers.
Even though women made up only three percent of newly appointed CEOs in 2013, Strategy& (formally Booz & Co) predicts in a recent report that they will make up one-third of newly appointed CEOs by 2040. This sounds like progress. However, the same report says that over the last decade, 38 percent of female CEOS in the world’s… Read the full article
