Digital Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Library

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

Talking about my generation

Tapping into Australia’s ageing workforce: Insights from recent research

The economic impact of ageism

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

Elevating the Workforce Experience: The Belonging Relationship – How a sense of belonging enhances the workforce experience

Finding our way to true belonging Belonging

Looking at inclusion through the lens of exclusion

The Value of Belonging at Work  

Cultural Diversity

2024 Board Diversity Index

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

The ‘Culturally and Linguistically Diverse’ (CALD) label: A critique using African migrants as exemplar

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

McKinsey and Word Economic Forum Centre for the New Economy and Society – Global Parity Alliance: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lighthouses 2023 INSIGHT REPORT JANUARY 2023

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 Is Psychological Safety? 

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 Officer Demographics and Statistics [2023]: Number Of Chief Diversity Officers In The US

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 Red Flags of DEI Jobs

The rise and impact of chief diversity officers

What happened to companies commitment to DEI?

When Passion Leads to Burnout

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

Banning straws might be good for the planet – but bad for people with disability or swallowing problems. What is ‘eco-ableism’?

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 Positive Duty

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

My Dyslexic evolution, part 2

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?  

When is a condition ‘chronic’ and when is it a ‘disability’? The definition can determine the support you get

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

2024 Board Diversity Index

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 in the Workplace – 2024

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: Ending family violence – Victoria’s 10-year plan for change

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: Our promise, Your future: Victoria’s youth strategy 2022–2027

Victoria’s overarching inclusion framework: Pride in our future: Victoria’s LGBTIQ+ strategy 2022–2032

Victoria’s overarching inclusion framework: Safe and strong: A Victorian Gender Equality Strategy

Victoria’s overarching inclusion framework: Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021

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

Gari Yala (Speak the Truth): Centreing the experiences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Australians at work

Hugely disappointing’: Indigenous employees ‘almost entirely absent’ from senior leadership, report finds

Indigenous Governance Toolkit

Indigenous Employment Index

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

Stan Grant 2023

Survival Day

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?

What can we learn from the marriage equality vote about supporting First Nations people during the Voice debate?

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 intersectionality wars

The Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw (video)

Unlocking EDI Engagement: The Power of Intersectionality and Human Connection in the Workplace

Intersex

Darlington Statement

Intersex-advocate-paul-byrne-moroney

LGBT  

LGBTI Housing & Homelessness Projects

LGBTIQ disability self-advocacy : A report on the results of a survey of LGBTIQ people living with disability in Victoria

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

What is neurodiversity?

Why It Is Essential To Understand Brain Diversity In The Workplace

Racial Equity

A Woman of Color Cannot Save Your Workplace Culture

Accusing people like Sam Kerr of ‘anti-white racism’ reveals a lack of understanding of a world still divided by 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

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)

Cultural Safety

Dai Le likens Covid lockdowns in western Sydney to ‘communist dictatorship’ in first speech

Duleesha says she was asked to change her name to something ‘more Australian’ at work. She’s not alone

EEON October 2021 Event: Antiracism for Racial Equity. From Conversation to Action (video)

For eight years I’ve served Australia. The racist hate and disgusting abuse still crushes me – Mehreen Faruqi

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

Reflections on the Multicultural Framework Review, Written to the Australian Government – Department of Home Affairs

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

Taboos and Trepidation: How to be Colour Brave and Support Cultural Diversity at Leadership in Australia

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

‘There Is Nothing Minor About Us’: Why Forbes Won’t Use The Term Minority To Classify Black And Brown People

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

Mental Health Video