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

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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: [email protected] Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Just a quick heads up, this episode contains some sensitive language and subject matter.

0:04.7

Welcome to Hear Me Out.

0:07.0

I'm your host Celeste Headley.

0:08.9

Workplaces around the country are reckoning with what it means to be a truly diverse,

0:14.7

equitable, and inclusive workplace.

0:17.1

It's a movement that's existed since the Civil Rights Movement started gaining traction,

0:21.4

but you'll note that hostile workplaces very much still exist.

0:25.6

If you work or you go to school, you've probably had to sit through a DEI training, and

0:30.4

you, like many other people, have probably wondered what the point is of all these buzzwords

0:35.2

and chief diversity officers isn't even working.

0:38.6

Our guest today argues, no, and that it's time to change course before workplaces accidentally

0:44.0

make things worse.

0:45.8

They say the word diversity a lot, especially in public.

0:49.4

Secretly deep down inside, they don't want to change a thing because the system is

0:54.2

working just fine for them as it currently is.

0:57.7

CEO and entrepreneur Cindy Gallup joins us on Hear Me Out in just a moment.

1:01.9

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