Ginny Hendricks | March 12, 2018 There is so much to say on the subject of workplace equality. Like everyone, I am a complex mix of history, heritage, experiences, environments—and of defaults. I am a woman. I was a child who grew up in the Middle East and Europe. I have worked and lived in many … Continue reading From where I sit. Changing our defaults
Category: Voices
Nitasha Devasar | March 20, 2018 In the last five years that I have been MD, I have begun to learn about gender dynamics in the workplace and surrounding ecosystem. Earlier, diversity and inclusion were lovely utopian concepts and one really didn’t hear them much, except perhaps in international forums and usually from female HR heads, in … Continue reading On Being a Woman Leader in the Modern Workplace
Wendy Newsham | March 23, 2018 I feel very fortunate to work for a highly successful, woman-owned and operated company. Since Mary Ann Liebert founded the company 34 years ago, it has grown into the leading independent bioscience journals publisher in the world. We have women in leadership positions throughout our organization. For the past ten … Continue reading Forge the Best Course for You …
Heather Ruland Staines | March 26, 2018 When I first thought about a career in publishing, I already knew I would need to get creative. A former academic, engaged to an academic, I would have little control over where we would land. My first job was as a book acquisitions editor in my specialty, military history. … Continue reading Diversity and Inclusivity through Flexible/Remote Work
Vicky Williams | April 3, 2018 For a while, I think I was a reluctant feminist. I never really thought of myself as a feminist, but instead focussed on championing meritocracy and fairness in the workplace. That is still my ideal, and the thing that drives me – but I now look at this through multiple … Continue reading The Inner Demon
Sabrina Robleh | April 9, 2018 The numbers speak for themselves. A survey conducted in 2015 found that 87% of workers in the Scholarly Publishing Industry were and are white. The onus of increasing diversity within the industry falls on not only the hiring practices of publishers but also on the retention of interns and entry-level … Continue reading We need more mentorship programs and networks for people of color within scholarly publishing
Susan Dawson | May 6, 2018 I recently heard a Verna Myers quote, “Diversity is inviting someone to the dance, inclusion is asking them to dance.” As a teenager in the ‘90s I spent a fair amount of time watching TV, so when I heard this quote, my immediate visualization was the scene in The Fresh Prince … Continue reading Dance Lessons
Lattelle Solomon Reaves | July 3, 2018 The old cliché “a picture is worth a thousand words” holds special meaning to me. Photography has always been my passion and it was one of the ways I was able to navigate the publishing industry throughout my 20+ year career. As a bright-eyed college grad who wanted to … Continue reading Focusing on Change: Equity Begins with Awareness
Jodi Harrell | August 13, 2018 I grew up in the 1980s with a mother who fully embraced the feminine ideal. I learned that to be feminine was to walk a more or less narrow line of conformity to what it meant to identify as female. Graceful, attractive, pleasant to be around. Happy, if only superficially. This … Continue reading Challenging the Feminine Ideal
Chhavi Chauhan | September 25, 2018 Equality…what equality? No two individuals of the >7.4 billion humans are identical in appearance, aptitude, emotional IQ, physical and mental wellbeing, and their personal and professional stature. I wonder if the human mind unconsciously seeks ways of sorting the gazillion people we come across in various walks of life. And … Continue reading Is Inclusion A Conclusion?