NEW YORK (AP) — The tech industry has brought us self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, disappearing photos and 3-D printers. But when it comes to racial and gender diversity, its companies are no trailblazers. Despite loudly touted efforts to hire more black, Latino and female workers, especially in technical and leadership positions, diversity numbers at the [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Tax credits. Lower cost of living. Restaurants and beaches. And don’t forget Roger Williams and his experiment in protecting everyone’s liberty of conscience. One of Colonial America’s most important freethinkers has a new role as a marketing tool for the place he settled 380 years ago. Rhode Island started out as [...]
Columbus-based Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. this week announced a plan to expand coverage to include workers’ compensation insurance. The nearly 90-year-old firm is partnering with West Virginia-based BrickStreet Mutual through affiliation agreements to diversify risk, expand agency distribution and improve purchasing power through increased economies of scale, company officials said in a press release announcing [...]
A new, global study of law firm senior in-house counsel has uncovered a strong correlation between gender parity in law offices and better financial performance. The 2016 Acritas Diversity Report also reveals a pay disparity between men and women in the Western Hemisphere’s legal industry that can more readily be described as a chasm, one [...]
A new study conducted by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy gave Ohio a failing grade for judicial diversity in its state courts. The report, titled “The Gavel Gap: Who Sits in Judgment on State Courts?” was the result of a collaboration between a team of independent researchers at Vanderbilt University and the [...]