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| Will Diversity Progress Be Undone by the Economic Downturn? |
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Last week, writing for Anderson Cooper's blog, Carmen Van Kerckhove (Director of New Demographic) made this statement: "A good friend of mine is an associate at a white-shoe law firm that just went through a major round of layoffs. Workplace diversity is very much on her mind now because during the job cuts at her firm, it became glaringly apparent that people of color were massively over-represented in the pink slips department." If this is true, then it seems as if the economic downturn might have the power to undo the legal profession's already scant diversity progress (let's face it--for many firms, letting just 2 or 3 people of color go could drastically reduce diversity percentages). But let us not speak too soon. What's happening at your firm? Have you witnessed this same trend? Carmen suspects that "this recession will soon lay bare which companies are truly committed to diversity, and which ones have just been saying what they thought people wanted to hear." Hmmm. Do you agree?
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