Does Diversity in the Workplace Ensure Workplace Equality?
Just because your workplace employs personnel whose racial or ethnic backgrounds and/or skin tones cover the full spectrum on the cream-to-dark chocolate rainbow, or whose gender and/or sexual identities likewise hit nearly every variety on the continua, and, yes, employs people whose range of inherant and biological capacities and abilities is wide indeed, does not guarantee (or even imply) that the environment, culture, or even policy ensures true equality and acceptance of the myriad manifestations of these differences, nor even the matters of opportunity, access, wage parity and fair treatment that have little or nothing to do with one’s unique demographic status. Put simply, demographic diversity is but one facet of an accepting and truly equal-opportunity environment. Yes, that such a wide spectrum of individuality is reflected within the workforce of a particular company is a very good sign, and an indicator that the attitudes and practices of that company do promote fair play a
