Carmen Van Kerckhove over at New Demogrphic posted a great post on her Race in the Workplace Blog a while back. In her post, she explains that fear of being branded a racist causes people to say that they do not see the most obvious of physical features. She says: Noticing a person’s race doesn’t…
A few weeks ago I posted about some of the reasons female minority lawyers are dissatisfied with the law firm environment. Well yesterday, I was watching Saturday Night Live’s annual commercial show and this sketch, while funny hit on some salient issues.
Successful Women Don’t Know Their Place One of the things that made me most proud of my grandmother was that she did not have believe that there were any limitations on what she was able to do with her life. Growing up in the early 20th Century, it would have been easy to accept that…
A couple of weeks ago 60 minutes ran a story on the impact of younger workers in the workplace. The piece noted that younger workers have different expectations concerning their careers than older workers. According to the story, gone are the days of working your way up through the ranks. Younger workers are demanding changes…
On Tuesday, NPR reported on a Pew Research Center/NPR poll that indicates that the end may in fact, be near. The study, that looked at perceptions of issues of race among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics found that some 37% of the Blacks who responded indicated that Blacks could no longer be seen as one "race." …
I ran across this Law.com article this morning that reports a study of job satisfaction among mid-level associates. The article explained that a study of mid-level associates at law firms indicated that minority women were less satisfied with their firms than white men and men of color and were less likely to see a future…
While I was on vacation, I saw that Genarlow Wilson, a young athlete from the Atlanta area in prison for having oral sex with a younger girl was released from prison by the Georgia Supreme Court. The Wilson case drew national attention because it arose in the aftermath of the Marcus Dixon Case. Dixon, like…
I have not posted for a while because my husband Omar and I have been vacationing on Maui. Well it was not exactly a vacation, my husband was competing in the Xterra Off-Road Triathlon World Championship race. (The picture to the right shows us atop Haleakala just before sunset a couple of days after the…
I stumbled across this article from the Times of London in which quotes James Watson, the scientist who discovered the double helix formation of DNA as saying that blacks are not as intelligent as people of other races. His comments were made when discussing his opinion for the prospects for change in Africa. He is…
Successful Women are not afraid to take their seat at the table, or enjoy the meal. Successful Women are not afraid to take their seat at the table, or enjoy the meal. When my grandmother died, she left me a treasure trove of memorobilia and pictures. Among the items she left me I found some…
