In 2015, Ellen Pao's trial against the powerhouse venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins shook up Silicon Valley and riveted the nation as she spoke out against the subtle and insidious discrimination women, people of colour, and others experience daily in corporate America. Her experiences, including her fight in the courts against a monolithic opponent, are told here in jaw-dropping detail. Her account is the story of a whistleblower who aims to...

"American Workplaces have put major resources into increasing diversity and inclusion, yet the outcome has been minimal. Based on her Google experience, Dannie Lynn Fountain shows how companies can move beyond performing to authentically enacting true DEI"--

It was the 1960s -- a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the "Help Wanted" ads were segregated by gender and the "Mad Men" office culture was rife with sexual stereotyping and discrimination. Lynn Povich was one of the lucky ones, landing a job at Newsweek, renowned for its cutting-edge coverage of civil rights and the "Swinging Sixties." Nora Ephron, Jane Bryant Quinn, Ellen Goodman, and Susan Brownmiller...

"The book explores the role that LGBT rights activism directed at corporations and corporate activism on behalf of sexual orientation and gender identity equality have played in the LGBT movement's pursuit of political, legal, and social objectives from the Stonewall era until today"--

"The story of America's first Black engineer, his revolutionary son, and the corporation that destroyed their relationship"--

"Latinos will account for a third of our workforce by 2050, yet Latino executives make up only 4 percent of senior roles in corporate America. This book identifies a path to close that gap"--

"Nearly one hundred years after the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange's indelible photographs remain vivid in our collective memory as the face of unemployment. Her portraits showed down and out men waiting in breadlines and the desperation of families living through the trauma of job loss. Though evocative, however, these pictures don't look much like today's unemployed. Instead of male laborers in breadlines or relief camps, today we see men and...

If the name Randal Pinkett sounds familiar, it may be because Pinkett was the first African-American winner on The Apprentice. When he won, this black man also became the only contestant to be asked to share his victory with a white woman. The request (and Pinkett's subsequent refusal) set off a firestorm of controversy that inevitably focused on the issue of race in the American workplace and in society. For generations, African-Americans have been...

"Trailblazer is the remarkable and inspiring story of Cheryl Tyler, the first woman of color assigned to the Presidential Protective Division of the United States Secret Service (USSS) and the struggles she endured during an eighteen-year racial discrimination class action lawsuit against the USSS"--