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As questions over racial equity rise to the top of the corporate agenda, diversity and inclusion (D&I) more broadly is being transformed from a feel-good story to a core part of business strategy. Read more about initatives such as The Diverse Dollar and Moving the Needle.
By any measure, the events of 2020 have been a remarkable moment in US history: an election that showed political divisions are more entrenched than ever, the type of civil unrest that had not been seen for decades, and in the midst of it all a global pandemic that exposed the fragility and inequality of the economy and prompted the US government to send cheques to 80% of the population. But it was the growing strength of the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements that really caught the attention.
‘Twenty years from now, sociologists will write books on the factors that coalesced to make this the moment when we finally sat up and acted as a nation’, comments Laura Quatela, senior vice president and chief legal officer of Lenovo. ‘There is a renewed focus on making real and meaningful change, and the kind of momentum that has not been with [US society] since the 1960s.’
