I’ll be honest with you. Before last year, I hadn’t thought a lot about diversity, and I should have. I received a minority scholarship when I went to college, and after graduation it was always part of each of my career opportunities and organizational service, but it wasn’t until I attended the 2010 PRSA National Leadership Assembly that I saw what a difference it makes. While there, we saw a presentation where Chapters around the U.S. were really taking diversity to the next level.
Diversity Hides in Different Places
August 9, 2011Admiral Mullen Walked the Walk and Made Diversity A Priority
August 8, 2011Recently New York legalized same sex marriage signaling a seismic shift in the quest for gay couples to gain state recognition of their unions. As important as that is, a larger shift is happening as the Pentagon implements policies to allow gays to serve openly in the armed services beginning Sept. 20, 2011. The military leader most responsible for the shift toward diversity and fairness is Admiral Michael Glenn Mullen.
On Oct. 1 Mullen will step down as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and retire from the U.S. military. His record of supporting diversity will not go unnoticed by those who served with him during Mullen’s 43 years in the military, nor by history.
Impact of Social Media in the Middle East
August 4, 2011This piece was originally published on the Saxum Perspective Blog.
Last month, I was invited to speak with a group of South Asian students visiting The Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Oklahoma. The workshop was about new media and its impact on democracies in the 21st century. I met with 20 students from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Naturally, the Arab Spring was a major topic of discussion.
According to the Arab Social Media Report, at the end of the first quarter of 2011, there were 27.7 million Facebook users in the Arab world, a 30 percent jump from the beginning of the year.
State of Gender Diversity in Public Relations: The Salary Gap Widens
April 1, 2011Editor’s Note: A version of this post originally ran in Ragan’s PRDaily.
The White House recently released a report showing that women still only earn about 75 percent of what men earn on the job. I feel disgusted but unsurprised.
Women have earned less than men since the government began tracking these numbers. In 1979, a woman earned 62 cents for every dollar earned by a man. In 2005 and 2006, women earned 81 cents on every dollar earned by men. That was the all-time high!