We sat down with Tasha Kitty, Program Director of Talent, Acquisitions, and Management at the home office of Sun Life Financial in Wellesley, MA. The Wellesley location employs approximately 1600 employees.
When President Clinton installed the policy of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in 1993, he continued a hush-hush policy within the armed forces towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals.
Oliver Wyman is a meritocracy – of people and of ideas – but that positioning is silent on LGBT issues. To move the global consulting firm from a difference-blind and passively accepting culture to an actively welcoming one, members of Gays and Lesbians…
At times, in the workplace, there is the belief that champions of diversity and inclusion (D&I) are somewhat limited to particular marginalized groups or confined within the walls of the operation. Nothing is further from the truth.
That’s so gay. That’s retarded. Are the children yours? Can you have children? But she doesn’t look like a lesbian. I have that handicapped woman on my team. Alarming? Yes, but these are just some of the remarks heard around the water cooler. These words are hurtful and can be seen as a form of bullying and harassment.
Despite the progress around inclusion demonstrated by the increase in ethnic minority groups being represented in the higher echelons of corporate America in recent years, for many organizations, similar efforts have been slow to non-existent regarding the inclusion of openly gay individuals.
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