Tag: Discrimination

  • Nation & World

    ‘Glass ceiling’ is problem, but so are ‘broken rungs’

    New report examines myths hampering advancement of women in workplace, actual barriers, and possible solutions

    9 minutes
    Iris Bohnet.
  • Nation & World

    Let’s not be strangers

    Harvard sociologist says her new book, “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works — And How It Can Heal a Divided World,” is a call to “recenter our understanding of inequality.”

    4 minutes
    Michèle Lamont.
  • Nation & World

    Confronting misconduct, strengthening culture

    Harvard Chief Diversity Officer Sherri Charleston and Deputy Provost Peggy Newell discuss implementation of new anti-bullying and nondiscrimination policies.

    8 minutes
    Sherri Charleston and Peggy Newell.
  • Nation & World

    Racial discrimination during COVID led to rise in depression

    Those who experienced discrimination early in the pandemic had increased odds of moderate to severe depression and suicidal ideation, compared to those who reported no discrimination.

    3 minutes
    Depressed person in a tunnel.
  • Nation & World

    Demystifying Harvard’s admission process

    William Lee, University’s lead counsel, discusses the Supreme Court case with Sherri Ann Charleston, chief diversity and inclusion officer.

    6 minutes
    Sherri Charleston and Bill Lee.
  • Nation & World

    Examining Brian Flores’ suit against NFL

    Class action lawsuit filed against the National Football League by Brian Flores seeks to break “old boy network” hiring and retention practices of team owners that he says discriminate against Black head coach candidates and coaches.

    8 minutes
    Brian Flores.
  • Nation & World

    Why disability bias is a particularly stubborn problem

    Tessa Charlesworth, a Department of Psychology postdoc, says social reckoning is needed to deal with implicit disability bias.

    5 minutes
    Tessa Charlesworth,
  • Nation & World

    How unjust police killings damage the mental health of Black Americans

    Harvard Chan’s David Williams, whose research looks at how discrimination affects Black people’s health, talks about his pioneering work to assess the toll that police killings are having on Black mental health.

    12 minutes
    David R. Williams.
  • Nation & World

    Asian Americans more worried about racist Americans than coronavirus

    A new survey shows that Asian Americans are more worried about the possibility of being a victim of pandemic-related racism than the virus itself

    6 minutes
    Woman holding I am not a virus sign.
  • Nation & World

    American voters don’t hate ambitious women, after all

    Upending conventional wisdom, new political science research finds that voters aren’t automatically put off by ambitious women candidates.

    4 minutes
    Kamala Harris.
  • Nation & World

    Opening health care access to trans community

    Soltan Bryce, an M.B.A. student and trans man, leads the growth of a digital startup that’s bringing much-needed health care to the historically neglected trans community.

    6 minutes
    Soltan Bryce.
  • Nation & World

    What fuels prejudice?

    A postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of Psychology Professor Matt Nock,Brian O’Shea is the lead author of a study that suggests racial tension may stem not from different groups being exposed to each other, but fear of a different sort of exposure — exposure to infectious diseases. The study is described in a July…

    3 minutes
    Brian O'Shea
  • Nation & World

    The endless struggle over racism

    Pervasive racism and hate requires a response that addresses it at various levels, from politics to public safety to schools, experts at a Harvard Chan School forum said.

    6 minutes
    Maureen Costello, Director of Teaching Tolerance and Member of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Senior Leadership Team; Dipayan Ghosh, Pozen Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; David Williams, Chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Oren Segal, Director, Center on Extremism, Anti-Defamation League; moderator Philip Martin, Senior Investigative Reporter, WGBH News
  • Nation & World

    The problems with LGBTQ health care

    A significant number of LGBTQ patients experience stigma and discrimination not just in their everyday lives, but in the health care system, a problem that can be addressed by increased awareness by physicians and other providers who treat them.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Racial discrimination still rules, poll says

    A panel at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discussed a poll that found more than half of African-Americans reported being discriminated against in the workplace and in police interactions.

    4 minutes
    Panelists in last week's Chan School Forum "Discrimination in America: African American Experiences," were Dwayne Proctor (from left), Elizabeth Hinton, David Williams, and Robert Blendon.
  • Nation & World

    When bias hurts profits

    Based on data collected from a French grocery store chain, a new Harvard study has found that minority workers were far less efficient in a handful of important metrics when working with biased managers.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The everyday response to racism

    When someone makes a racially charged comment or joke, how would you respond? Research led by Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont says your answer may very well depend on the group to which you belong.

    18 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Mixed progress cited in challenging discrimination

    The Weatherhead Center continued its series of discussions on inequality, focusing on the mixed progress of efforts to advance fairness and social inclusion. The talk touched on discrimination against the Roma people and the disabled, and the rise of inequality in an era of support for human rights.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Progress, but no letup

    In the LGBT community, “equal rights does not necessarily mean equal lives,” Tim McCarthy, an activist and Harvard lecturer, told a Harvard Kennedy School audience on July 11. With that in mind, he and a group of researchers at the Face Value project are aiming to combat real-world stigma, not just legal discrimination.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Aiming for both diversity, success

    A provocative role-playing presentation called “Inclusive Leadership: Managing Successful Teams” was designed to bring attention to workplace inequities, stereotypes, discrimination, and unconscious bias. The session was the second in a series of diversity dialogues.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Not black and white

    During a trip to the Museum of Science, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and students from her freshman seminar revisited many of the issues they explored in her fall class.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The Wal-Mart way

    Joseph Sellers, a lead attorney in the class action suit against Wal-Mart Stores, discussed the background of the workplace discrimination case and his experience arguing it before the Supreme Court.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Gates receives European Culture of Peace Award

    Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been awarded the European Science and Culture Award from the City for the Cultures of Peace in Berlin. The award is given in recognition of his fight against the abuse of human rights, racism, and discrimination, and efforts on behalf of the victims of oppression. Gates, the Alphonse…

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Intersection of race, sex, science prompts questions

    In 2002, there were no African-American, Hispanic, or Native American women in tenured or tenure-track positions in the top 50 computer science departments in the country. That lone statistic illustrates that, despite progress made by women in academic science appointments over the past three decades, there is a long way to go, according to Anne…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Women far behind in patent awards

    Women who strive to make new biological discoveries at universities are awarded less than half the number of patents than their male colleagues.

    5 minutes