Equity is about more than just hiring diverse employees
Capehart
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan Capehart and this is Cape Up. |
| 0:05.3 | Diversity, inclusion, and equity are words that seem to be animating American business |
| 0:09.0 | these days, but are companies really making any headway in achieving their stated goals. |
| 0:14.4 | I tackle this question with Vernay Meyers, vice president of inclusion strategy at Netflix, |
| 0:19.9 | who says DE and I, as it's called, is more than just bringing in diversity. |
| 0:24.1 | It's also about the hard work of making sure those voices are heard once they are there. |
| 0:29.8 | Meyers advocates using an inclusion lens, one that pushes everyone at the table to broaden their |
| 0:34.5 | imagination on what's possible. And in this conversation recorded during a Washington Post |
| 0:39.4 | Live event on July 20th, she used the perfect example in Indian wedding. |
| 0:44.9 | So it's like people been going to like these traditional weddings forever and they think, |
| 0:49.5 | oh that's so beautiful, flower girl and the beach, the flowers. And then you go to an Indian, |
| 0:56.6 | when are you like, oh, I don't know anything about weddings. We have not been partying. |
| 1:00.7 | Meyers talks about how use of that inclusion lens at Netflix is what brought about the wildly |
| 1:06.3 | popular Bridgerton. This was a rich conversation that covered so much ground that I'm going to get |
| 1:11.7 | out of the way so you can listen to it right now. |
| 1:19.8 | Vernay, welcome to Washington Post Live. |
| 1:22.6 | Hi Jonathan, I'm so happy to be here with you. |
| 1:26.2 | Well I'm happy to have you here. You have consulted for some of the biggest companies in the |
| 1:31.3 | country and every big company is focused on diversity, inclusion and equity or at least they |
| 1:37.5 | say they are. So how do you measure the inclusion health of a company? What do you look for? |
| 1:43.6 | What do you look at? Well of course most people think demographics and the numbers and certainly |
| 1:50.6 | that is very important to look at so you can see sort of where the gaps are. But what is harder |
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