The Buzz: A Word on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day
We post something every year on Black women’s Equal Pay Day. We sound like a broken record. Our message is the same.
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Author: Mary-Frances Winters
The Buzz: Celebrate and Support Black Entrepreneurs!
August is designated as Black Business Month. It is a time to celebrate, acknowledge, and uplift Black business owners. According to statistics, 10% of all businesses in the U.S. are Black-owned and 30% of all minority businesses are Black-owned. And since the pandemic started there has been a 30% rise in Black business ownership despite only 29% of Black business owners receiving government support during the COVID crisis, versus 60% of white business owners. Black women are the major reason for this surge.
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Navigating the VUCA World: Living with VUCA
For the past six months we have explored what it means to live and work in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world, especially from the perspective of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ). Posts have illuminated VUCA from an intrapersonal, interpersonal, and systems perspective. We have explored the impact of the unrelenting pandemic, political polarization, the passage of extreme legislation that diminishes our human and civil rights, and a new hybrid work environment, among other topics.
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The Buzz: Overturning Roe v. Wade Bends the Arc of Justice the Wrong Way
If The Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, it opens the door to challenge any right that is not specifically named in the Constitution (written over 200 years ago!) such as rights to contraception, private sexual activity, and marriage equality. The consequences of overturning the ruling will not only have damaging but dire, far-reaching consequences for freedom, justice, and equity. This ruling would exacerbate racism, classism, sexism, and criminalization of already marginalized and oppressed groups and sets our quest for justice back hundreds of years.
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Prioritizing Well-Being in a VUCA World
At The Winters Group internal meeting this week, we held an open forum to discuss how VUCA is impacting the team. There were some heartfelt emotions centering around the stress of navigating serious personal health and family issues while attending to our DEIJ work that more often than not carries significant emotional labor. We need to take our mental well-being seriously. With this new level of VUCA, it is ever more important. The team discussed some coping strategies that I offer here.
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