When she interviewed for a teller job at Bank of America, she recalled the hiring manager telling her "everybody starts someplace, everybody deserves a chance." "It opened a small little door to help me prove myself," she said."And at the same time, he didn't let his bias affect how he perceived me at that time “ maybe the bias that I have an accent, maybe the bias that I'm female, maybe the bias related to I'm from a different country," she said.
She said, in fact, she has clients expanding into being more accommodating to people with disabilities and people of different generations."Not all companies stopped," she said."They may not be comfortable to publicize it externally like they did in 2020, to make these big statements, but they are doing it internally."They may not be talking about it on their website or applying for awards related to DEI, but they are still doing it.
She said she already has seen colleagues getting laid off, chief diversity officers losing their jobs or not having positions backfilled and, in academia, colleagues asked or told to change the names of their courses."The chilling effect did not just start for people like myself," she said.
The story "Trump's anti-DEI policies impact public, private sectors across US" has 1319 words across 31 sentences, which will take approximately 6 - 11 minutes for the average person to read.
Which news outlet covered this story?
The story "Trump's anti-DEI policies impact public, private sectors across US" was covered 5 hours ago by Business Standard, a news publisher based in India.
How trustworthy is 'Business Standard' news outlet?
Business Standard is a fully independent (privately-owned) news outlet established in 1975 that covers mostly business and finance news.
The outlet is headquartered in India and publishes an average of 277 news stories per day.
It's most recent story was published 2 hours ago.
What do people currently think of this news story?
The sentiment for this story is currently Negative, indicating that people regard this as "bad news".
How do I report this news for inaccuracy?
You can report an inaccurate news publication to us via our contact page. Please also include the news #ID number and the URL to this story.
