If there's no change in current promotion, attrition and external hiring rates, it may take about 95 years for Black private sector employees in the U.S. to reach parity in management positions — 12% representation overall, according to McKinsey & Company.

Just before the 2020 recession, Black female professionals were advancing in the workplace. But according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in January 2021, Black female professionals' unemployment rate continued to increase, reaching 9.0% from 7.7% in December 2020. Compare this percentage to white female professionals' unemployment rate, which held steady from December 2020 at 5.3%.

Last month, when Michael J. Brewer became one of 10 communications directors of color out of roughly 100 in the U.S. Senate, he took it as a small sign of progress.

For Georgetown Law Professor Chris Brummer, the nation’s glaring lack of Black financial regulators is tied directly to the long history of economic injustice. In his keynote address at the Security and Exchange Commission’s Black History Month Celebration, Brummer challenged the agency to increase its Black representation

Black and Latina women continue to disproportionately struggle with the effects of the pandemic on the job market, according to a Feb. 10 study by WerkLabs, the data and insights division of The Mom Project. One-third of Black mothers and one-fourth of Latina mothers said they were unable to work remotely during the pandemic, compared to only one-tenth of both White and Asian mothers.

When Dee C. Marshall worked on Wall Street, she was often the only Black woman in the room. These days, she is striving towards making corporate America more diverse. After the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer last May, she’s seen a definite shift in attitude.

SFA, the leading trade group for the securitization industry, today released the following statement on a proposed rule from Nasdaq requiring public companies to adopt new diversity standards for their boards of directors.

When asked to describe how they feel about meetings, many professionals will use the same language: “boring,” “inefficient,” and “unproductive.” While these descriptors may ring true for some, they do not ring true for all. For some, meetings aren’t boring—they’re stressful. They aren’t inefficient—they’re isolating. They aren’t unproductive—they’re confusing.

SFA is asking DEI leaders to complete a brief survey on their company’s current DEI policies and practices to give us valuable input as we shape our industrywide DEI initiative.  The survey is available through February 28, 2021.