Learning Objective: Explore how race and gender practices affect businesses and how to accomplish a more diverse workforce can be achieved Organizations are working towards creating a conscious and pro-active, diverse work environment for the new workforce. In the corporate environment, differences and subtle biases can lead to productivity in the workforce prevent fair and inclusive diversity practices from succeeding. With more cultures, transgender and various age groups working side-by-side, management will need to find new ways of working together to accomplish projects on time. How can companies become leading samples of fair and inclusive practices? What can be done to move forward with greater levels of business, cultural and social awareness? This seminar will test your personal preconceptions and address ways to help engage in discussions and around cultural mindfulness and inclusion. At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to: a. Define cultural diversity b. Identify biases and behaviors that prevent inclusive diversity. c. Examine methods to include various cultures and lifestyles in the workforce. d. Explore behaviors that build support for cultural and gender groups in the workforce.

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2. Welcome to the Workplace:
The New Gender in the Workplace
Cheryl Kern
Director Global Diversity &
Inclusion
Lockheed Martin
Paula Tylor
Director, Office for Diversity &
Leadership, U.S. Army Materiel
Command
Christine Burkette
CEO Project Manager
PICF, INC.
Moderator
Renata C. Spinks
Cyber Technology Officer
U.S. Marine Corp Forces
Cyberspace Command

3. Women
In
The
Workplace
Data obtained form DOL.GOV / CATALYST.ORG
57% of women
participated in
the labor force
26% of people
employed in
computer, math
and other STEM
occupations are
women
70% of women
with children
under 18
participate in the
workforce
Only 3% percent of
the Fortune 500
CEOs are women
Women are still
underrepresented in
corporate offices
Women are wary of
stresses and pressures
with top-level jobs
Women aren’t
being
successfully
sponsored or
mentored
A lack of flexible
work
arrangements
exists
Women still
make less
than men
Race and
gender bias/
stereotypes
Women don’t
have the same
access to career
making roles as
men
Women of color
work twice as
hard to prove
themselves
Women have more
responsibilities at
home/family
Press For Progress!
Much Work Remains
• 26% of women in
STEM
• 30% of women in
government roles
• 43% of women in
corporate America
(private sector)
• 12.1% of women of
color in corporate
America
• 11% of women of
color in federal
government roles
Being
rejected by
other women
of color
How do we fit
inclusion in the
workplace?
Handout

4. 1- Being judged according to false stereotypes
2- Playing the advocate to the entire Black race (along with
other minorities)
3- Working twice as hard
4- Being the odd woman out
5- Being at the end of double standards
6- Having to do the “voice switch” and other ways of
watering ourselves down
7- Being rejected by other women of color
Data obtained form DOL.GOV / CATALYST.ORG/ the Corp Sister
7 Unique Challenges Faced by Women
of Color at Work Handout