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Left Behind: How will BIPOC Women Fair in the Return to Post-Covid “Normalcy”

Affirmative Action was mostly affirmative for white women. What can your organization do to ensure that WOC aren’t left behind in the revamp of post-covid work spaces?

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Rai King
Feb 28, 2021
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Raise your hand if you remember affirmative action? A set of policies instituted by the Johnson administration in the 1960s meant to broaden access to employment opportunities to certain categories of “minorities” (mainly Blacks) on the heels of the Civil Rights Movement? Well, it’s no secret that of all the groups affirmative action was meant to benefi…

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