Diversity Equity Inclusion Digital Reading List (Downloadable PDF at bottom)
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
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
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
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
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
Enabling the Diversity and Inclusion Practitioner – current challenges to our profession
Elevating Equity: The Real Story of Diversity and Inclusion
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
Jobs in Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Have Risen 123% Since May—Here’s How To Get One
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)
Smoke and Mirrors: The state of diversity, inclusion and belonging in Australian workplaces
Taking bold action for equitable outcomes
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 Sustain DEI Momentum, Companies Must Invest in 3 Areas
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 the Head of Diversity is the Job of the Moment
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.
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
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
Six signature traits of inclusive leadership – Deloitte Insights
How diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) matter – McKinsey (3rd Report 2020)
The diversity backlash is underway. Here’s how to resist it
The head of DEI should not report to HR
There’s a lack of diversity in Australian leadership roles. These experts are trying to fix that
The rise and impact of chief diversity officers
What happened to companies commitment to DEI?
Why Business Leaders Are Pulling The Plug On DEI
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 – Christina Ryan
Disability pay and employment gaps 2020
Don’t drink? Have a disability? What to do when you’re left out at workplace events
Enabling Change Getting to Equal 2020: Disability Inclusion
Getting To Equal: The Disability Inclusion Advantage
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
Not all disabilities are visible
The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance
What can make the world of work wonderful?
Domestic Violence
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
Flexible working and the pandemic: more than just working from home
How email culture is failing women at work Flexibility Productivity with flexibility: the ‘silver lining’ of the new workplace
Reimagining the office and work life after COVID-19 Flexibility 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
A woman of color cannot save your workplace culture
An infamous Spanish kiss overshadowed meritorious women doing their job – can you believe it?
Australia’s gender equality scorecard – November 2020
Baseline report – 2021 workplace gender audit data analysis
CEW Senior Executive Census 2022 G
Cultural Diversity Pay Gap Report
Dr Niki Vincent/Just Begin the Change
Frustration and fatigue’: Public sector leads charge on gender equality at work
Gender Equity – Western Sydney University
GENDER EQUITY AND INCLUSION BY DESIGN – A toolkit for the Australian university sector 2022.
Gender: Key success strategies – Jason Teoh
How Can Universities Contribute to Gender Equality?
How many people to implement a gender equity plan – at least five people (Dec 2022)
How Men Can Become Better Allies to Women
International Women’s Day 2021 – have the men shown up this year? (Mar 2021)
Jack and Jill and the Feminine Filter and Masculine Mantra
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
Shades of ‘they’: Mansplaining pronouns for obstinate blokes
Stoic and masculine: how the ‘tough man’ stereotype hurts men as well as women
The myth of merit and unconscious bias
To advance equality for women, use the evidence
Victoria shows power of mandatory workplace gender equality auditing with first figures released
Western Sydney University – Vice-Chancellor’s Statement on Gender Equality
WGEA reports a 20.1% gender pay gap. And not enough being done to close it
WGEA Scorecard 2022: The state of gender equality in Australia
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
Domestic violence surging amid COVID-19 lockdowns, research shows
Pay Equity
Some basic Pay Equity analysis for Diversity , Equity and Inclusion Practitioners
Gender Pay Equity – Western Sydney University
Gender Pay Gap: focus on fixing the infrastructure
You can’t hide from the numbers: Australian women earn less than men in any job
Disability pay and employment gaps 2020
Government Policy (Victoria)
Victoria’s overarching inclusion framework: Gender Equality Act 2020
Victoria’s overarching inclusion framework: 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:
First Nations Women who have nlazed a trail & those who are keeping the flame alive
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 – Ian Hamm
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
Charles Sturt University – Graduate Certificate in Intersectionality, Diversity & Inclusion
Does intersectionality pose a problem for human rights?
The Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw:
Unlocking EDI Engagement: The Power of Intersectionality and Human Connection in the Workplace
LGBT
A holiday whiskey commercial is going viral for its heartwarming message — and surprising twist
Rainbow Network Zoom Backgrounds
Writing themselves in publications (four)
Neurodiversity
Danny Taylor Smith – Support, synergy and success on the autism spectrum
Neurodiversity in the workplace: Why it matters Neurodiversity What is neurodiversity?
Why It Is Essential To Understand Brain Diversity In The Workplace
Race
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
Chopping down the bamboo ceiling – Julie Chai
Collingwood racism report should have led to real consequences. Instead, it became a sideshow
Courageous Conversations About Race Compass
Courageous Conversations About Race protocol overview
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
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
Let’s Talk About When Black People are Called Racists – Breaking down the myth of reverse racism
Meet Rebecca Stevens Alder, Anti-Racism Writer
Diversity and Inclusion in Asia Network (DIAN) Conference
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
Racism. It Stops With Me – Ask yourself the hard questions
Racism. It Stops With ME : Workplace Cultural Diversity Tool
Stand by me Reg Amoah Diversity & Inclusion Advisor at Norton Rose Fulbright
The Four Agreements of Courageous Conversations Glenn Singleton
The Relentlessness of Black Grief
The Sugarcoated Language Of White Fragility
VANISHING WOMEN: Why Senior Women of Colour are Fleeing the Corporate World
We change our mind when we want to change our mind
Why DEI And Anti-Racism Work Needs To Decenter Whiteness
Yes, Black People Stories Are “In” Right Now, But Listening Is Only Half The Work
Equity Diversity Inclusion: Action Toolkit for Organizations
Broken Ladders: The Myth of Meritocracy for Women of Colour in the Workplace
Race/Gender
Broken Ladders: The Myth of Meritocracy for Women of Colour in the Workplace | The Fawcett Society
Most women of colour ‘hide’ their heritage due to UK workplace racism
Sixty percent of women of colour in Australia experience workplace discrimination, survey finds
Women from diverse backgrounds face leadership barriers
Recreation & Sport
Proud 2 Play: 2022 impact Report
Reference Data
Discover Victoria’s diverse population
Victoria – 2021 Census All persons QuickStats
Sexuality
Darlington Statement on Intersex
LGBTI Housing & Homelessness Projects
My own death felt preferable to anyone discovering I was gay – Dan Palmer
Private Lives 3: The Health and Wellbeing of LGBTIQ People in Australia
The Australian media’s portrayal of trans people is a betrayal of their human rights
Sex and Sensibility – on the science of sex, gender, and sexuality fascinating
Youth
Discrimination Cases
Racism: Tesla Racism Case Award Cut to $15 Million From $137 Million
Racism: Uber agrees to settle California discrimination lawsuit for $10 million
Disability: Coca-Cola to pay $2.25M, update return-to-work policy to settle ADA charge
Sex: MORGAN STANLEY SETTLES BIAS SUIT WITH $54 MILLION
Understanding the job
Understanding the Job – Edward Capaldi
Human Centred Design
Introduction to human-centred design
Mental Health
Diversity Equity Inclusion Digital Reading List (Downloadable PDF at bottom)