Can Data Drive Racial Equity?

Collecting and analyzing the right employee data can help leaders identify meaningful actions and measure progress toward more equitable workplaces.

Elizabeth J. Kennedy

December 03, 2020

The summer of 2020 saw an unprecedented number of corporate leaders publicly acknowledge and condemn institutional and structural racism, as part of a national reckoning on racial injustice. Issued in response to widespread protests against police violence, these statements called for an end to racial disparities across all systems, including health care, education, housing, criminal justice, and employment. This movement emerged at a moment when people of color were more likely to be working on the dangerous front lines of a pandemic, ...