The Wall Street Journal published a story this week about DEI supporters who think corporate DEI needs a makeover. It turns out that a lot of the stuff being promoted in the name of DEI either doesn’t work or borders on illegal.
Some of the most visible steps that businesses took after George Floyd’s murder in 2020 turned out to be ineffective, according to Harvard sociologist Frank Dobbin, whose research on racial and gender disparities in management is often cited as evidence for robust diversity programs. Those pledges companies made to fill certain percentages of leadership roles with women and people of color? Besides being legally risky, the goals seldom materialized, he says.
And the unconscious bias training that was supposed to produce antiracist allies? Turns out people hate being told they have hidden prejudices.
Dobbin is an interesting…
