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Diversity without equity considerations
Issues of equity are often the underlying causes for why we need diversity initiatives. Equity considerations can be difficult to address because they often relate to historical and longstanding structural systems of inequality, which are difficult to dismantle. However, ignoring equity considerations dooms us to making little progress toward diversity and no progress toward equity. Diversity efforts are often concentrated on how we “fix” individuals from marginalized or minoritized groups or what we can do to support them to pursue and persist despite inequity. Equity concerns focus more on changing the structures and systems that create the inequities in the first place.
Read the full article: The Problem with Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity by Geraldine Cochran, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Office of STEM Education at Rutgers University
