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Bloody Frontier Politics: Menstrual Equity, Military Inclusion, and the Canadian Workplace 血腥的边疆政治:月经平等、军队包容和加拿大的工作场所
Diversity & Inclusion Research Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1002/dvr2.70029
Danica Facca, Arun Jacob
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Visualizing # Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: From “Didn't Earn It” to “Definitely Earned It” 可视化#多样性、公平和包容:从“不值得”到“绝对值得”
Diversity & Inclusion Research Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1002/dvr2.70027
Marie Bernard-Brind'Amour, Yasmin Jiwani
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I Won't Let You Break Me: Black Feminism, Survivance, and the Emergence of Ontological Flexibility 《我不会让你击垮我:黑人女权主义、生存与本体灵活性的出现》
Diversity & Inclusion Research Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1002/dvr2.70024
Lynell S. Hodge, Natasha Jones
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The Case of Sylvia Mahlangu—The Fight for Legislative Inclusion for Domestic Workers in South Africa 西尔维娅·马朗案——为南非家庭佣工争取立法包容的斗争
Diversity & Inclusion Research Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1002/dvr2.70025
Thulani Nkosi, Nerishka Singh
{"title":"The Case of Sylvia Mahlangu—The Fight for Legislative Inclusion for Domestic Workers in South Africa","authors":"Thulani Nkosi,&nbsp;Nerishka Singh","doi":"10.1002/dvr2.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An estimated 800,000 domestic workers live and work in South Africa. Domestic work is an industry dominated by Black women who are often from marginalised backgrounds. It is one of the few sources of employment accessible to poor and low-income women not only in South Africa but around the world as well. The foundations of the sector were laid during the Apartheid era, which legislated racially discriminatory laws and normalised racially discriminatory beliefs and practices. This, combined with institutionalised and patriarchal values, which often diminish the economic value of domestic labour, has created overlapping forms of oppression that still are present in the lives of domestic workers today. Sylvia Mahlangu was one such domestic worker who, while cleaning the outside windows of her employer's house, fell into their uncovered pool and drowned. As the head of her household, her family and dependents were tasked with simultaneously grieving her death as well as seeking compensation for their lost access to income. For Black, South African workers, one wage must typically support four people (Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice Dignity Group, 2023: Household Affordability Index). This piece delineates the Constitutional challenge taken on by the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) to include domestic workers in the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA) 130 of 1993, the legislation which allows employees to claim compensation for injuries sustained during the course of their employment.</p>","PeriodicalId":100379,"journal":{"name":"Diversity & Inclusion Research","volume":"2 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dvr2.70025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Social Justice Agenda for Community Organizations in Morocco (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Reconsidered) 摩洛哥社区组织的社会正义议程(重新考虑公平、多样性和包容性)
Diversity & Inclusion Research Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1002/dvr2.70022
Kenza Oumlil
{"title":"Social Justice Agenda for Community Organizations in Morocco (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Reconsidered)","authors":"Kenza Oumlil","doi":"10.1002/dvr2.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Theoretically and practically, how does the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) framework fit with the local specificities and needs of a non-Western country like Morocco? Struggles for social justice have preceded the formulation of EDI language. This study takes interest in frameworks and practices of engagement in advocacy work, as well as challenges encountered in doing civil society work. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews conducted with Moroccan women's rights activists and sub-Saharan women migrants in Morocco. The interviews show that the research participants have worked on implementing legal reforms to counter discriminatory laws and pursue the empowerment of their communities. Further, they have engaged in creating cultural transformations by presenting nonstereotypical and alternative views. Some of the challenges they encounter include backlashes from religious conservative forces. They “must” navigate integrating external funding demands while mobilizing for the issues that they deem a priority. Although these community organizations are distinct, this study seeks to generate knowledge from the ground up regarding epistemologies and practices, while also illuminating potential future directions for the implementation of social justice agendas.</p>","PeriodicalId":100379,"journal":{"name":"Diversity & Inclusion Research","volume":"2 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dvr2.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143909331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Centering Queer Experiences and Resisting Cis-Heteronormativity: Advancing Queer Research Amid Global Backlash 关注酷儿经历与抵抗顺异性规范:在全球反弹中推进酷儿研究
Diversity & Inclusion Research Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1002/dvr2.70023
Le Cui, Lin Song
{"title":"Centering Queer Experiences and Resisting Cis-Heteronormativity: Advancing Queer Research Amid Global Backlash","authors":"Le Cui,&nbsp;Lin Song","doi":"10.1002/dvr2.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.70023","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Globally, LGBTQ+ rights have experienced both progress and setbacks in recent years. As queer1 issues gain greater visibility worldwide, many countries have expanded legal protections and institutional support for LGBTQ+ communities. Taiwan became the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage in 2019 and later granted adoption rights to same-sex couples in 2023 (Cheung &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). Spain passed a law in 2023 allowing individuals over 16 to change their gender on official documents without medical supervision (Jones &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). In January 2025, hundreds of same-sex couples celebrated their weddings across Thailand as the country became the first in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality (Olarn and Lau &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;). These instances of positive developments demonstrate a certain extent of disruption and challenge to entrenched institutional cis-heteronormativity. By cis-heteronormativity, we refer to the relations and practices that normalize, promote, and reinforce heterosexuality, the gender binary, and cisgender identity, while simultaneously stigmatizing and punishing nonnormative identities outside of heterosexuality and cisgender norms (Cui &lt;span&gt;2024b&lt;/span&gt;; Cui and Song &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite these positive signs, recent developments have highlighted the challenges for LGBTQ+ rights on a global scale. In the United States, shortly after his inauguration for a second term, President Donald Trump issued executive orders that redefined the US government's stance on gender and diversity, recognizing only two sexes—male and female (Wendling and Epstein &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;). Similarly, the UK Supreme Court recently issued a ruling that defines the term “woman” in the Equality Act solely on the basis of biological sex, excluding transgender women (Carrell &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;). This rise of the “anti-gender ideology movement” in the West resonates with the broader, global resurgence of authoritarianism (Butler &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). Georgia and Hungary have enacted laws granting authorities the legal power to prohibit Pride events, representing a significant intensification of governmental efforts to suppress gender and sexual minorities (Al Jazeera &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;; Kassam &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;). Russia has not only waged war on Ukraine but also targeted those it perceives as internal enemies, intensifying its persecution of LGBTQ individuals, organizations, and communities in recent years as the Kremlin seeks to uphold “traditional values” (Vorobyov &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;). In China, crackdowns on LGBTQ activism and organizations under Xi Jinping's rule—characterized by heightened censorship and suppression—have severely stifled the movement's ability to organize and take collective action (Song &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; Longarino &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recent advancement in and backlash against LGBTQ+ rights underscores the complex nature of LGBTQ+ politics in an era marked by political polarization. More significantly, ","PeriodicalId":100379,"journal":{"name":"Diversity & Inclusion Research","volume":"2 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dvr2.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143897118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Enhancing Self-Efficacy for Engagement With Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives: Evaluation of a Seven-Day Immersive Pilot Program in a College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences 提高参与多样性、公平和包容倡议的自我效能:对教育、健康和人文科学学院为期七天的沉浸式试点项目的评估
Diversity & Inclusion Research Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1002/dvr2.70021
Jennifer M. Jabson Tree, Stefanie Benjamin, Dorian L. McCoy
{"title":"Enhancing Self-Efficacy for Engagement With Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives: Evaluation of a Seven-Day Immersive Pilot Program in a College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences","authors":"Jennifer M. Jabson Tree,&nbsp;Stefanie Benjamin,&nbsp;Dorian L. McCoy","doi":"10.1002/dvr2.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Colleges of health, human sciences, and education are often administratively organized to include a diverse array of human sciences departments that share roots in social justice and a commitment to advancing equity and inclusion. Despite espoused commitments to equity and inclusion, they frequently struggle to achieve the changes necessary for advancing equity, and inclusion principles across policies, practices, procedures, and units. We implemented and evaluated a 7-day, total immersion, 56-h, educational program entitled the “Social Justice Institute” (SJI) for two cohorts of faculty, staff, and administrators to develop self-efficacy to intervene in systemic oppression in their academic units. SJI delivered focused content and exercises on structural oppression. A one-group, pre-, and post-survey no comparison process evaluation design was used to estimate the change in participants' quantitative self-efficacy. Cohort 1 included 14 and Cohort 2 included 15 participants (<i>N</i> = 29). Before attending SJI, participants' average self-efficacy score was 5.84 (SD = 0.76; Cohort 1) and 5.83 (SD = 0.37; Cohort 2), respectively. After attending the SJI, the self-efficacy average increased to 6.49 (SD = 1.19) and 6.46 (SD = 0.18) respectively. This is a 9%–10% average improvement in self-efficacy each year. Each cohort rated the quality of the SJI. Day 2 had the highest quality rating (mean = 4.75, SD = 0.45) (topic: sex, gender, sexism, and cissexism), with Day 3 receiving the lowest quality rating (mean = 3.75, SD = 0.97) (topic: race, racism, and whiteness). This evaluation provides preliminary evidence that an SJI may be one possible contribution to advancing self-efficacy for intervening in bias in higher education. Rigorous educational programs and evaluations must be implemented and conducted to advance strategies that support inclusion and diversity in higher education.</p>","PeriodicalId":100379,"journal":{"name":"Diversity & Inclusion Research","volume":"2 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dvr2.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143879936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Bridging Antiracism and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Discourses Through Grassroots Organization Efforts 通过基层组织的努力,将反种族主义与公平、多样性和包容性论述联系起来
Diversity & Inclusion Research Pub Date : 2025-04-20 DOI: 10.1002/dvr2.70019
Pascale Caidor
{"title":"Bridging Antiracism and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Discourses Through Grassroots Organization Efforts","authors":"Pascale Caidor","doi":"10.1002/dvr2.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article centers on the voices and experiences of racialized women, which are often marginalized in organizational settings that fail to adequately address racial discrimination. Grassroots organizations play a vital role in bridging the gap between antiracism and EDI discourses. Yet, research on their communication campaigns remains scarce, despite their key role in integrating these often-conflicting narratives. These organizations are not merely supportive; they are essential in amplifying overlooked perspectives and shaping antiracism discourse in the public sphere. This paper examines the practices, tactics, and discourse of a grassroots organization that develops antiracism campaigns and initiatives with its publics. It is based on a collaborative project with FRY, a nonprofit organization founded by racialized women from the African diaspora. Drawing on the cocreational perspective, this study explores how grassroots organizations and their publics cocreate meanings around racial issues. Using qualitative methods including interviews, observations, and focus groups with nonprofit members, this research investigates how the organization collaborates with its audiences to cocreate diverse “safe spaces” and discourses tailored to the specific needs of racialized women. These spaces offer opportunities to openly discuss racism, find refuge from discrimination, foster sisterhood, and connect members with critical resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":100379,"journal":{"name":"Diversity & Inclusion Research","volume":"2 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dvr2.70019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Meanings of Autistic Rituals and Routines: Using Personal Explanations Written by Bloggers to Improve Inclusion 自闭症仪式和惯例的意义:用博客作者的个人解释来提高包容性
Diversity & Inclusion Research Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1002/dvr2.70018
Stephanie Petty, Amy Cantwell
{"title":"Meanings of Autistic Rituals and Routines: Using Personal Explanations Written by Bloggers to Improve Inclusion","authors":"Stephanie Petty,&nbsp;Amy Cantwell","doi":"10.1002/dvr2.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rituals and routines are used to define autism. However, descriptions that come from diagnostic manuals exclude many people from being recognised as autistic initially, and exclude others from owning a positive autistic identity. Different examples and descriptions of these behaviours are missing from clinical guidelines. Autistic people provide valuable updates to how repetitive behaviours can be understood. This study supplements outdated and stereotyped examples of rituals and routines with personal explanations given by individuals who identify as autistic. A systematic search and mixed methods analysis of blog data was carried out using corpus-based and meta-ethnographic methods. These methods may interest researchers wishing to represent perspectives that are often omitted from research. A systematic search was used to locate qualitative descriptions of rituals and routines in personal narratives in blog data. Blogs were written by 40 adults who reported being autistic. Corpus-based analysis showed illustrative examples of rituals and routines, and meta-ethnography provided a line-of-argument synthesis for how and why these behaviours were used. Importantly, all repetitive behaviours were chosen personally by the autistic authors; they achieved a sense of control over their world. Benefits included in-moment recharging of energy and reliable ways to anticipate and reduce overwhelm. Rituals and routines used were likened to being an island, escape, or traffic light. These qualities underpinned different appearances of behaviours, including using lists, routines, rules, step-by-step guides, and schedules, stimming movements, exercising, dancing, and engagement in interests. Many different repetitive behaviours showed the specific demands placed on these authors in different environments. Underpinning functions of the repetitive behaviours were consistent over changeable times and places. The findings destigmatise autistic identity by recognising meaningful behaviours used as part of everyday life, rather than seeing autistic differences as problematic by default. This understanding can be used to inform assessment decisions and therapeutic supports that affect autistic people.</p>","PeriodicalId":100379,"journal":{"name":"Diversity & Inclusion Research","volume":"2 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dvr2.70018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143836145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Best Practice or Buzzword? the Opportunities and Challenges of Mentorship for EDI in Creative Technology 最佳实践还是流行语?创意技术领域电子数据交换导师制的机遇与挑战
Diversity & Inclusion Research Pub Date : 2025-04-13 DOI: 10.1002/dvr2.70017
Alison Harvey, Tamara Shepherd, Dani Rudnicka-Lavoie, Emily Mohabir
{"title":"Best Practice or Buzzword? the Opportunities and Challenges of Mentorship for EDI in Creative Technology","authors":"Alison Harvey,&nbsp;Tamara Shepherd,&nbsp;Dani Rudnicka-Lavoie,&nbsp;Emily Mohabir","doi":"10.1002/dvr2.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores mentorship as a much-celebrated strategy for improving equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) across a range of exclusionary working sectors. As a tactic for addressing underrepresentation and scaffolding entry, progression, and success within historically homogenous industries, mentorship is seen as a normatively beneficial practice. Yet, despite its association with greater opportunities and potential for breaking barriers, mentorship is rarely defined and how it is enacted is typically absent from discussion. Our research project tackles this ambiguity on the impact of mentorship for EDI aims and values, with a specific focus on creative and technological industries where exclusions in participation remain pernicious. Drawing on critical feminist analysis of public-facing materials about mentorship in these sectors and 40 interviews with mentorship program organizers and creative tech workers who have engaged in mentorship relationships, we outline the characteristics of mentorship activities from the perspective of three key stakeholders in EDI- corporate units such as employee resource groups, third-party companies who provide mentorship services to organizations and individuals, and community groups featuring mentorship as part of their activities. Our exploration of these three distinct models of mentorship demonstrates that the context where these activities are organized shapes their implementation, evaluation, and overall potential impacts, including for intersectional feminist aims. We conclude by arguing for the value of communal-based approaches to mentorship for more transformative outcomes related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":100379,"journal":{"name":"Diversity & Inclusion Research","volume":"2 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dvr2.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143826676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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