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Jennifer Piscopo

@jennpiscopo.bsky.social
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Professor of Gender and Politics and Director of the Gender Institute in @rhulpir.bsky.social at Royal Holloway, University of London; failed ballerina and would-be puppy owner.

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In @nathumbehav.nature.com I point out: there is little evidence that gender quotas in politics, business, or academia undermine merit or foment backlash; in fact, quotas generally raise qualifications of the women and men who are selected. @rhulpir.bsky.social. Read for free: rdcu.be/BaVm6JeVYZra.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I spoke w/ Marisa Bate for @theipaper.com about AOC's potential presidential run. It is not that she would or could win, but there won't be a better moment than 2028 for an unconventional, authentic, progressive woman who still has outsider credentials to take her chance. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Maga's worst nightmare: a child-free, unmarried female president
America is in a time of flux: traditional drivers of family life are slipping
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In this farewell essay, @payoub.bsky.social & I say goodbye as editors of @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. Here, we reflect on the responsibility editors bear for others' careers-- and on why editing for us meant a duty of care. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"Gender doesn't matter" does not just dismiss women as relevant, but also ignores the existence and reality all LGBTQIA+ individuals as well... totally agree @kzhill.bsky.social!
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is terrible and enraging. I have heard nothing in London about welfare checks and efforts to get the elderly and vulnerable into cooling centers. We need to do better. Googling to figure out how I can volunteer....
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I'm in! Who else?
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What is more is that England's local government reorganisation will reduce the # of women local councillors even further, as fewer seats advantages men. Sally Yalden's prelim analysis is here: lgiu.org/could-local-...
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Could Local Government Reorganisation reverse progress towards gender parity among councillors? - LGIU
In this think piece, Cllr Sally Yalden – a Parish Councillor and Borough Councillor in Test Valley – reflects on the impact of Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) on women’s representation and democ...
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A dispiriting fact that I have learned the hard way, over and over: For many award committees, search committees, and other selection committees, there is no research profile impressive enough to make up for not having a prestigious institution after your name.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Thanks to @interpretivemm.bsky.social for featuring my article in @pspolisci.bsky.social on patterns of gender and LGBTQIA+ research in top journals: alas, still a long way to go towards inclusion! Read the section's great new research digest here: us13.campaign-archive.com?u=481e9fba53....
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IMM Research Digest No. 2
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Gender Institute @genderrhul.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New Substack from our Assistant Director, Charli McMackin: the 'searching mothers' in Mexico and the gendered outsourcing of justice—when the state abandons the search, women inherit 'care for the dead.' Read the full article here: royalhollowaygenderinstitute.substack.com/p/from-care-...
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From Care for the Living to Care for the Dead: Maternal Labour and the 'Searching Mothers' in Mexico
By Charli McMackin
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
🙏 to Ximena Caló for writing abt my @apsrjournal.bsky.social article w/ Amanda Clayton & @dzobrien.bsky.social: across 12 democracies, gender parity rules for ♀️ in politics do *not* lead citizens to think govt institutions procedures & decisions are less fair! politicalsciencenow.com/what-voters-...
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What Voters Really Think About Gender Quotas: An APSA Public Scholarship Program Summary -
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ximena Caló, covers the new article by Amanda Clayton, [...]
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
1000% hate this victim-blaming. It's a scam all the way down: people grifting on selling AI training, putting all responsibility on users, when it remains a terrible product w/ low productivity returns, enormous environ costs & along-term goal of severing citizens' ability to think for themselves.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Come study with us at @genderrhul.bsky.social @rhulpir.bsky.social! We offer an interdisciplinary Masters in Gender Studies, with an intersectional focus, and we welcome students of all gender identities and lived experiences of gender. 🌈♀️
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Thinking tonight of that time when things were going very badly for the Argentine military junta so they decided to reclaim the Falkland Islands....
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Thrilled that my new research w/ @kiranstallone.bsky.social on Bogota's Manzanas del Cuidado -- Blocks of Care -- is now published via the @genderrhul.bsky.social and Ladysmith: we find that feminist care policy *is* possible and reproducible across contexts! pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/files/699028...
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
My new article with Anna Elomäki and Claudia Weisner analyses how, despite international policy conversations about building caring economies, even countries well-poised to invest in care after COVID-19 did not do so: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... @rhulpir.bsky.social
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Towards Caring Economies? Feminist Economic Visions and COVID-19 Recovery in Germany, Canada, and Finland
Feminist economic and feminist political economy approaches have long critiqued the gendered division of labor that relies, in part, on women’s underpaid or unpaid care work in public and in privat...
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
For @policyoptions.irpp.org, I wrote about how Canada lags its European and Anglo peers in electing women to parliament, how that harms their reputation, and, drawing on research w/ @dzobrien.bsky.social & Amanda Clayton, why voters prefer gender parity. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/gend...
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Canada ranks 71st for women in politics
Canada ranks 71st in the world for women in parliament. Voters support gender quotas to make politics more representative.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Publication day! In @poppublicsphere.bsky.social, Verónica Pérez-Bentancur, Cecilia Rocha-Carpuic & I use data from Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Guyana & South Africa to propose a new framework for analysing "feminists vs conservative" battles over abortion reform. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Adoption and Implementation as a Two-Stage Process: Feminist Strategies and Conservative Resistance in the Quest for Legislative Abortion Reform | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Adoption and Implementation as a Two-Stage Process: Feminist Strategies and Conservative Resistance in the Quest for Legislative Abortion Reform
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I understand we want to explain large-scale complacency, but let's be clear: authoritarianism is *not* boring for women, minoritized individuals, immigrants, dissidents & everyone whose existence and rights are actively threatened by the regime. Erasing the harms is part of how complacency wins.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The point is not only to make parents, families, and people feel guilty; the *main* point is to make *women* *be* guilty. This whole shebang is deeply tied to the Trump's administration efforts to return women to their 'proper' roles in hearth and home and to police their bodies and their choices.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
An amazing thank you @cwolbrecht.bsky.social & @sfranceschet.bsky.social for choosing my article 'Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation' for the 20th anniversary of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation - Volume 16 Issue 4
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Happy to be featured in this new video from UN Women discussing barriers to women's political participation-- and for all the women aspirants out there, why 'it's not you, it's them'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QLy...
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How social norms shape who leads and decides in politics | WYDE | Women’s Leadership Initiative
YouTube video by UN Women
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It has been an honor to participate in @msmagazine.com's podcast, Looking Back, Moving Forward, with @carmenriosss.bsky.social. In this episode, we talk about how feminists worldwide have redefined democracy ⤵️ msmagazine.com/2025/07/16/j...
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I cannot believe I'm in the same podcast as Dolores Huerta and Goveror Maura Healey. Subscribe today for the new @msmagazine.com podcast on feminist futures with @carmenriosss.bsky.social! 🔽
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It was so lovely to spend the day with smart gender and politics scholars, learning about such new and wonderful work! Thank you so much @ioannagkoutna.bsky.social & @payoub.bsky.social!
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We have a new pathway for gender equality in the US. I am proud to have partnered with the Los Angeles-based Gender Equity Policy Institute to coauthor a new policy brief on taking a gender lens to public policy. thegepi.org/roadmap-equi...
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Roadmap for an Equitable Future: Placing a Gender Lens on American Public Policy - Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI)
REPORT: Integrating a gender perspective in policymaking is a promising new approach for accelerating women's equality in the United States.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I am here at the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions in Prague and I am happy to answer questions about the journal!
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It was my pleasure to serve as the opponent for Juan Diego Duque-Salazar's PhD defense at @uupeace.bsky.social on Friday! Felicidades to Juan Diego for a fantastic project on gender and political ambition in contexts of high election insecurity.
Applauding Juan Diego for his successful dissertation defenseJuan Diego Duque Salazar and Jennifer Piscopo at Juan Diego's dissertation defenseJuan Diego Duque Salazar and Jennifer Piscopo at Juan Diego's dissertation defense after-party
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I am honored & humbled working w/ Amanda Clayton & @dzobrien.bsky.social. Our latest @apsrjournal.bsky.social shows that gender quotas do *not* erode legitimacy: across democracies, voters prefer legislatures w/ gender balance to those w/ male dominance, full stop. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Electoral Gender Quotas and Democratic Legitimacy | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Electoral Gender Quotas and Democratic Legitimacy
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Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Two fab presentations by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social and @hannahrphill.bsky.social (and also Leah McCabe on abortion policy) for the Women and Politics group panel on the 2024 elections. Such important work here
Prof Piscopo in front of a projector with presentation slides showing various headlines about women politicians being too ambitiousDr Philips in front of presentation slides introducing her worl on abuse and intimidation of politicians at the 2024 UK general election
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Gender Institute @genderrhul.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Everyone is most welcome to join Professor Laura Sjoberg talk about her upcoming book on Tuesday 6th May at 4:30pm and the networking and general get together afterwards - gender@rhul.ac.uk.
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Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) Research Network. @egenpolisci.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
2025 EGEN Prize Announcement: We are thrilled to announce the results of the 2025 prize competition. The EGEN prize committee selected 5 Prize Recipients and 3 Honorable Mentions this year! @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social @teele.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Enjoyed talking with @representwomen.bsky.social today about Claudia Sheinbaum's first 100 days (even though it was a while ago). You'll have to wait for the full interview to hear why I think Sheinbaum's newfound status as 'Trump Whisperer' is absolutely a gender story.
Screenshot of the Zoom meeting with Represent Women, featuring three staff from Represent Women and Jennifer Piscopo.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
If you read French, I enjoyed talking w/ Marie Billon about women in UK politics for @mediapart.fr. I am quoted on the smaller margin of error for women left and right, and how right-wing women need to over-demonstrate their conservative credentials to be taken seriously by their parties.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A very nice visit to Oxford yesterday to present at the Nuffield politics seminar!
My name plate at the high table at Nuffield college, Oxford.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Ready for two days of working with the National Assembly in Ecuador on making parliament more gender sensitive.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I'm in Ecuador on behalf of IPU, to lead a gender sensitive parliament exercise for the National Assembly. I take heart in the international and national organizations still committed to realizing women's rights!
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
My smile does not match the topic: my spot on Swedish Radio talking about Trump's threats to US univesities. sverigesradio.se/play/artikel...
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Genusforskaren: Trumps nerdragningar riskerar ”brain drain” i USA - Vetenskapsradion Nyheter
Trump-administrationens kraftiga neddragningar av forskningsanslag tillsammans med uppmaningar att stoppa satsningar kring mångfald, jämlikhet och inkludering ...
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
So happy to be back in Uppsala for a great book workshop with @elinbja.bsky.social & @parzetterberg.bsky.social, some lovely dinners with friends, and a stop at Swedish radio to talk about gender research in the era on Trump!
Group photo of attendees at the book workshop hosted at Uppsala University. Photo of three women at dinner, myself and my two colleaguesPhoto of me at the Swedish radio studio
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Thrilled to be in Brussels at the UN Women Expert Group Meeting on social norms and women's political participation. Backlash is real, but I take heart that global efforts around ending gender inequality are not going away.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
But her emails. apnews.com/article/dona...
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Elon Musk's DOGE commission gains access to sensitive Treasury payment systems: AP sources
The move by DOGE means it could have wide leeway to access important taxpayer data, among other things.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The chaos, the confusion, the anxiety, the wrenches thrown into the gears of institutions... everything that makes you want to close your eyes and ears, find a way ignore the noise, and just go back to figuring out how to get through your regular day. That's exactly the point. 1/3
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Interesed in social media data? Check out this new report on data use, availability, and storage from the great New Political Communication unit at @rhulpirp.bsky.social, authored by my smart colleagues @andreucasas.bsky.social @benoloughlin.bsky.social & Georgia Dager. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
We are growing at EJPG -- submissions are up, our impact factor is climbing (2.3), and we have a new associate editor! We are thrilled to welcome the wonderful Anna Elomäki to our team at @ejpgjournal.bsky.social!
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
My new piece in @pspolisci.bsky.social: % of gender & LGBTQIA+ articles in 6 polisci journals. Takeaway: gender articles abt ~6%; LGBTQIA+ articles, <1%. Nearly all use quant methods & men are greater % authors than their % membership in respective APSA sections. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals | PS: Political Science &amp; Politics | Cambridge Core
Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Thank you to OtrosDiálogos of the Colegio de México for inviting me to reflect on whether this is, indeed, the century of women in Latin America (my answer: yes). My essay in Spanish here: otrosdialogos.colmex.mx/__trashed-5
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OTROS DIÁLOGOS | ¿El siglo de las mujeres en América Latina?
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
An excellent analysis from @carinzissis.bsky.social & Maria Fernanda Benavides on why 2024 was not time for women in the US -- but it was in Mexico (including quotes from @labaldez.bsky.social about quotas and me about women in the GOP). vozyvoto.com.mx/articulo/por...
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¿Por qué no fue el tiempo de las mujeres en Estados Unidos?
¿Cuando Joe Biden decidió retirarse de la carrera presidencial de Estados Unidos para dar paso a Kamala Harris, surgió una posibilidad: que México y Estados Unidos finalmente tuvieran presidentas.
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My interview in @folha.com about Harris's loss and Trump's win-- and why even a Democratic man or a mainstream Republican could not have won this election. www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2024/1...
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thanks again to @velshimsnbc.bsky.social for inviting me on to talk about why diversity initiatives boost corporations -- and why some corporations are bowing to political and social pressure to back off. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
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‘The way to do the work is slowly, surely, and over time’: Corporate America and DEI
Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, rolled back some DEI initiatives this week, joining a trend of corporations this fall dropping diversity and equity goals amid ongoing conservative and ...
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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Thank you for having me @velshi.bsky.social! DEI boosts company performance and actually enhances merit-based recruitment-- and those opposed never acknowledge these facts.
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