Hear Me Out: Workplace DEI Trainings Do More Harm Than Good

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… if you need a Chief Diversity
Officer, you’ve already failed. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
(DEI) trainings are reaching ubiquity in pretty much every American
workplace. There’s no doubt that discrimination, harassment and
sequestering — on the basis of sex, sexuality, gender, race, age —
all of that exists. The question becomes what to do about it. And
there’s an argument to be made that the trainings and buzzwords
might be doing more to make workplaces worse than they do to make
them better. Cindy Gallop, entrepreneur and CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld
and MakeLoveNotPorn, joins us. If you have thoughts you want to
share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can now email
the show: hearmeout@slate.com Podcast production by Maura Currie
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