Diversity Equity Inclusion Digital Reading List
Accessibility
A Total Guide to Accessible Colors [Including Palettes & Templates]
Age
Intergenerational Diversity and Exclusion – lifting the cloak of invisibility
Managing Intergenerational Tensions
Meet Dave and Carlos – Ageing Workforce Ready (Video)
Older workers fall victim to ‘grey ceiling’ discrimination
Tapping into Australia’s ageing workforce: Insights from recent research
Belonging
6 Ways to Foster Belonging in the Workplace – Culture Amp
Belonging at work: The top driver of employee engagement
Belonging by Tom Verghese – Cultural Synergies (Video)
Belonging: From comfort to connection to contribution
Finding our way to true belonging Belonging
Looking at inclusion through the lens of exclusion
The Value of Belonging at Work
Cultural Diversity
Advocates call out “disappointingly low” cultural diversity on ASX 300 boards
APSC announces 24% CALD target for SES ranks
Australia sets 15% CALD representation target for public service leadership
Beyond CALD: what lies behind the labels
CALD: Why some say this label is failing Australians
Cultural Diversity In Government Part II – Backwards To Australia
Cultural Diversity Data and Targets – If not now, then when, and how?
Dismal’ lack of cultural diversity in leadership sparks call for targets
Leading for Change: A blueprint for cultural diversity and inclusive leadership (2016)
Leading for Change: A Blueprint for Cultural Diversity and Inclusive Leadership Revisited (2018)
Migrant skill mismatch costing the country $6 billion a year
The ABS won’t be asking about ethnicity at the next census
There’s a lack of diversity in Australian leadership roles. These experts are trying to fix that
Truth Be Told (No) Cultural Diversity on Australian Boards
Why ‘culturally and linguistically diverse’ has had its day
Would we be better off without the acronym CALD?
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
3 Small Ways to Be a More Inclusive Colleague
3 expert insights to inform your DEI strategy in 2024
50+ Examples of DEI Scorecards and DEI Reports
Ally, Advocate and Activist: understanding who we are in the world demanding change
Are Your Diversity Efforts Othering Underrepresented Groups?
Creating a Competency Model for Diversity and Inclusion Practitioners
Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That’s Why They Perform Better
Diversity & Inclusion – Resisting the temptation for quick fixes
Diversity and Inclusion Build High-Performance Teams (Gartner)
Diversity matters even more: The case for holistic impact (2023) 4th McKinsey Report
Do you have a strong business case for D&I? 40 sources that will definitely help
Elevating Equity: The Real Story of Diversity and Inclusion
Enabling the Diversity and Inclusion Practitioner – current challenges to our profession
Equity Diversity Inclusion: Action Toolkit for Organizations
Fixing the Flawed Approach to Diversity
Getting Over Your Fear of Talking About Diversity
How Diverse Leadership Teams Boost Innovation
How diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) matter – McKinsey (3rd Report 2020)
How to Be an Inclusive Leader Through a Crisis
How to define diversity, equity, and inclusion at work
How to Develop Inclusive Leaders
Leading Diversity & Inclusion work with Optimism in a time of uncertainty
Microsoft Global Diversity & Inclusion Report 2020
Navigating inclusion as a leader: lessons from the Inclusive Leadership Compass
Radically Rethinking Diversity and Inclusion – EEON Event (video)
Six signature traits of inclusive leadership – Deloitte Insights
Smoke and Mirrors: The state of diversity, inclusion and belonging in Australian workplaces
Taking bold action for equitable outcomes
The 5 Phases of Effective EDI Strategy Planning and Implementation
The diversity and inclusion revolution: Eight powerful truths
The evolution of Diversity & Inclusion practice during C….19?
The Failure of the DEI-Industrial Complex
The Mix That Matters: Innovation Through Diversity
The Root Cause Of Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Burnout, And How To Fight It
The Trouble With Inclusion – Peter Slatin
To Make Lasting Progress on DEI, Measure Outcomes
To Sustain DEI Momentum, Companies Must Invest in 3 Areas
Unconscious Bias and Its Effects on the Workplace
What’s the Difference? DEI vs EDI vs DEIA vs DEIB vs JEDI
Where Do Justice And Liberation Fit Into Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion?
Why we’re failing diversity if we don’t include diverse viewpoints
DEI Data
Data-Driven Diversity: To achieve your inclusion goals, use a metrics-based approach.
Democratised Datasets: Valuing People for Who They Are
Eight simple diversity data exercises from a DEI practitioner and analytical chemist
How can HR translate diversity data insights into action?
Issues in Measuring and Reporting Diversity
DEI Management
8 Essential Qualities of Successful Leaders
12 Ways CEOs And Companies Fail Chief Diversity Officers
2024 Workplace Equity Trends Report – Syndio
AHRI Futures Paper – Navigating Australia’s DEI Landscape for Impact and Sustainable Change
Australia leads for diversity & inclusion roles in the APAC region
Chief Diversity Officers Beware – Is that VIP title and matching salary worth the headache?
D&I Leaders global benchmarking survey and report
Diversity Fatigue: What It Is and Why It Matters
Having a clear narrative and rationale when talking with executives about diversity
Jobs in Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Have Risen 123% Since May—Here’s How To Get One
Measuring the ROI of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Parallel with Human Resources
Resistance in Diversity Equity Inclusion work – how do we keep going in 2024?
The diversity backlash is underway. Here’s how to resist it
The head of DEI should not report to HR
The rise and impact of chief diversity officers
What happened to companies commitment to DEI?
Why Business Leaders Are Pulling The Plug On DEI
Why the Head of Diversity is the Job of the Moment
DEI Maturity Models
AHRI Diversity & Inclusion Maturity Model
DPC-Diversity-and-Inclusion-Strategy-2019-23.PDF (content.vic.gov.au)
ECU’s Diversity & Inclusion Capability Maturity Model
Eight truths about diversity and inclusion at work | Deloitte Insights
The Five Stages of DEI Maturity
Disability
Ableism and disablism – how to spot them and how we can all do better
BCA report on improving employment outcomes for people with disability: galvanising for action
Building diversity from adversity
Disability Business Directory – Disability Leadership institute
Disability pay and employment gaps 2020
Disability Tech Is A Game Changer For 2023 And Beyond
Disability Victorian Public Sector Toolkit
Don’t drink? Have a disability? What to do when you’re left out at workplace events
EEON Event Matt Parker Short Video
Enabling Change Getting to Equal Accenture 2020
Getting to Equal: The Disability Inclusion Advantage Accenture 2018
Impostor Syndrome, Stereotype Threat and Disabilities
My Dyslexic evolution from struggles to strengths
Negotiating the barriers to employment for people with disability
Negotiating the barriers to employment for people with disability (video)
Not all disabilities are visible
The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance
The Greatest – Apple (video)
The Future Of Work: Personalization, Accessibility, And Inclusion As Catalysts For Success
Understanding Disability (video)
Unmasking the Truth: How Disability Masking Affects Identity and Inclusion
What can make the world of work wonderful?
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence surging amid COVID-19 lockdowns, research shows
Seen But Not Heard: There are families in family violence
Education
Below the poverty line: The real cost of being a university student
Study finds half of university students want to drop out
Employment
Career unicorns spark your joy
Social Mobility Commission – Cross-Industry Toolkit
The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work?
Flexibility
Accelerating Change on Flexible Ways of Working – Male Champions of Change
An Inclusive, Shared, Gender-Neutral Approach To Parental Leave
Flexible working and the pandemic: more than just working from home
How email culture is failing women at work
Productivity with flexibility: the ‘silver lining’ of the new workplace
Reimagining the office and work life after COVID-19
Working during the Pandemic: From resistance to revolution?
Working From Home? 12 Guides To Help Navigate The Remote Life
Gender
30 critiques holding women back from leadership that most men will never hear
An infamous Spanish kiss overshadowed meritorious women doing their job – can you believe it?
A Woman of Color Cannot Save Your Workplace Culture
Australia’s Gender Equality Scorecard Key results from the WGEA’s Employer Census 2022-23
Beyond lip service: tracking the impact of the gender diversity gap
CEW 2024 Senior Executive Census
Engaging with the backlash towards gender equity initiatives – insights from a male D&I practitioner
Frustration and fatigue’: Public sector leads charge on gender equality at work
Gender-equality-in-asx-300-leadership-has-come-to-a-standstill-report
Gender Equity and Inclusion by design – A toolkit for the Australian university sector 2022.
Gender Equity – Western Sydney University
Gender: Key success strategies
How many people to implement a gender equity plan – at least five people
How Men Can Become Better Allies to Women
I took Sheryl Sandberg’s advice and leaned in. It didn’t work.
International Women’s Day 2021 – have the men shown up this year?
Measure for Measure: Gender Equality in Australia
Men building gender equality: A guide to XY’s content
Men still hold 9 in 10 CEO roles at Australia’s largest companies
Pronouns: Compulsion and Controversy
Respect@Work – Creating safe, inclusive and respectful workplaces
The glass cliff: why women lead in a crisis
The myth of merit and unconscious bias
To advance equality for women, use the evidence
The 6 reasons I didn’t speak at International Women’s Day events this year
Victoria shows power of mandatory workplace gender equality auditing with first figures released
VPS Baseline report – 2021 workplace gender audit data analysis
Western Sydney University – Vice-Chancellor’s Statement on Gender Equality
What standards will the PM set?
Who is a real man? Most Australians believe outdated ideals of masculinity are holding men back
Women’s mental health in the context of COVID-19
Workplace gender equality…are we there yet?
Pay Equity – Gender Pay Gaps
Dozens of Australian businesses have gender pay gaps above 50%, landmark data reveals
Ethnicity pay reporting: guidance for employers (UK)
Gender Pay Gap could cost the world economy $7 trillion, Moody’s says
Gender Pay Gap: focus on fixing the infrastructure
Gender Pay Gaps – why intersectional analysis is important?
Gender pay gap could take 170 years to close, says World Economic Forum
Gender Pay Equity – Western Sydney University
How one of the ‘bloke-iest’ companies in Australia is smashing the gender pay gap Is the social origin pay gap bigger than we thought?
Levelling the playing field: New practical guide for closing your socio-economic pay gap
Socio-Economic Background Pay Gap Report 2021 – KPMG LLP
Some basic Pay Equity analysis for Diversity , Equity and Inclusion Practitioners
The Gender Pay Gap Remains Stubbornly in Place. Why?
What could mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting mean for the future of workforce equality?
What is disability pay gap reporting?
Which big employers have the largest and smallest gender pay gaps? New data reveals all
You can’t hide from the numbers: Australian women earn less than men in any job
Government Policy (Victoria)
Victoria’s overarching inclusion framework: Gender Equality Act 2020
Our equal state: Victoria’s gender equality strategy and action plan 2023–2027
Victoria’s overarching inclusion framework: All VPS Gender Equality Action Plans 2021
Victoria’s overarching inclusion framework: Inclusive Victoria: state disability plan 2022–2026
Victoria’s overarching inclusion framework: Multicultural policy statement
Victoria’s overarching inclusion framework: Safe and strong: A Victorian Gender Equality Strategy
Victoria’s overarching inclusion framework: Victorian Aboriginal Affairs Framework 2018-2023
Inclusive language guide
Inclusive Language Guide (Oxfam)
Inclusive Workplace Toolkit (Hue)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
Aboriginal deaths in custody reflect the poor health of Australia’s democracy
Addressing deficit reporting is more than just telling positive stories
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Blak, Black, Blackfulla: Language is important, but it can be tricky
Closing the First Nations employment gap will take 100 years:
Co-design with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities
First Nations Women who have nlazed a trail & those who are keeping the flame alive
Indigenous Evaluation Committee Terms of Reference
More than half of Indigenous Australians are experiencing racism in the workplace
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2020
Reconciliation Australia – 20 Actions for Reconciliation
Reconciliation: Moving beyond Acknowledgement of Country
Removing barriers to Aboriginal employment
Rethinking Criminal Record Checks
There have never been just black people in Australia
Tokenised, silenced’: new research reveals Indigenous public servants’ experiences of racism
Truth-telling paves the way to a brighter future
Uluru Statement from the Heart
Uluru Statement from the Heart awarded 2021 Sydney peace prize
We are on the brink of losing Indigenous languages in Australia – could schools save them?
Who Gets to Tell Australian Stories?
Intersectionality
5 ways intersectionality affects diversity and inclusion at work
An Intersectional Approach to Inclusion at Work
Does intersectionality pose a problem for human rights?
The Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw (video)
Unlocking EDI Engagement: The Power of Intersectionality and Human Connection in the Workplace
Intersex
Intersex-advocate-paul-byrne-moroney
LGBT
LGBTI Housing & Homelessness Projects
My own death felt preferable to anyone discovering I was gay
Private Lives 3: The Health and Wellbeing of LGBTIQ People in Australia
Private Lives 4: Writing themselves in publication
Pronouns: Compulsion and Controversy
Rainbow Network Zoom Backgrounds
Sex and Sensibility – on the science of sex, gender, and sexuality fascinating
The Australian media’s portrayal of trans people is a betrayal of their human rights
Neurodiversity
A different headspace: Six people on being neurodivergent during lockdown
Danny Taylor Smith – Support, synergy and success on the autism spectrum (video)
Matt Parker on Neurodiversity (video)
Neurodiversity in the workplace: Why it matters
Neurodiversity 101: and Menopause
Why It Is Essential To Understand Brain Diversity In The Workplace
Racial Equity
A Woman of Color Cannot Save Your Workplace Culture
Anti-Racism: Why Your DEI Agenda Will Never Be A Success Without It
Are All White People Privileged?
Black employees say ‘performative allyship’ is an unchecked problem in the office
Broken Ladders: The Myth of Meritocracy for Women of Colour in the Workplace | The Fawcett Society
Chopping down the bamboo ceiling
Collingwood racism report should have led to real consequences. Instead, it became a sideshow
Courageous Conversations About Race Compass (video)
Courageous Conversations About Race protocol overview (video)
Dai Le likens Covid lockdowns in western Sydney to ‘communist dictatorship’ in first speech
EEON October 2021 Event: Antiracism for Racial Equity. From Conversation to Action (video)
From #Blacklivesmatter To Real Workplace Change
Glossary of terms relating to ethnicity and race: for reflection and debate
How to have courageous conversations about race – Glenn Singleton
Let’s Talk About When Black People are Called Racists – Breaking down the myth of reverse racism
Meet Rebecca Stevens Alder, Anti-Racism Writer
Microaggressions Reources and Articles
Most women of colour ‘hide’ their heritage due to UK workplace racism
Quiet Quitting Isn’t Really A Thing Among Black Workers
Race in the workplace: The Black experience in the US private sector
Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue
Race vs. Ethnicity vs. Nationality: All You Need to Know
Racism. It Stops With Me – Ask yourself the hard questions (video)
Racism. It Stops With ME : Workplace Cultural Diversity Tool
Stand by me Reg Amoah Diversity & Inclusion Advisor at Norton Rose Fulbright
Sixty percent of women of colour in Australia experience workplace discrimination, survey finds
The Four Agreements of Courageous Conversations – Glenn Singleton
The Relentlessness of Black Grief
The Sugarcoated Language Of White Fragility
There’s a lack of diversity in Australian leadership roles. These experts are trying to fix that
We change our mind when we want to change our mind (video)
Why DEI And Anti-Racism Work Needs To Decenter Whiteness
Why black women are exiting the corporate workplace in great numbers Why women of color are leaving, and how to rethink your DE&I strategy
Yes, Black People Stories Are “In” Right Now, But Listening Is Only Half The Work
Widening the Dialogue: Courageous Conversation® in Every Sector
Women from diverse backgrounds face leadership barriers
Women of Colour in Australian Workplaces 2024
Yes, Black People Stories Are “In” Right Now, But Listening Is Only Half The Work
Reference Data
Discover Victoria’s diverse population
Victoria – 2021 Census All persons QuickStats
Understanding the job
Understanding the Job – Clayton Christensen
Human Centred Design
Introduction to human-centred design
Mental Health