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| Hello again, friends of The Short List! It's John, and I hope you're finding a way to beat the heat and stay safe. It's been boiling out there – literally. |
| As you're chilling out, we invite you to explore our in-depth series on corporate diversity. |
| USA TODAY gathered previously undisclosed hiring records from dozens of the most highly valued companies in the stock market. The sobering finding: More than a year after George Floyd's murder spurred corporate pledges for change, deep racial inequalities persist at every level of these companies, creating sharply disparate outcomes for people of color, especially women. |
| ►Among the 54 companies surveyed by USA TODAY, 1 in 15 Black or Hispanic workers held management jobs compared with 1 in 7 white workers. And about 1 in 4 white workers held a professional position compared with just 1 in 9 Black or Hispanic workers. |
| ►"The reason why we have these issues is that Blacks, Hispanics and women are still considered and treated like underclass citizens and chattel," said Ursula Burns, the former CEO of Xerox and the first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Burns now leads the Board Diversity Action Alliance and is dedicating herself to reversing the sharp underrepresentation of people of color and women of color in corporate America. |
| ►It's up to corporations to stand up for racial equality and social justice inside their own organizations and in the nation at large, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman told USA TODAY. "Values cannot be words on a wall," he said. "Values need to be actions you publicly stand up for." |
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