In this CNN Business article, Fordham Law Professor Atinuke Adediran says diversity, equity, and inclusion has been losing with corporate America, with one big exception: the people who actually own the companies.
Most institutional shareholders like BlackRock and Vanguard still believe having a diverse workforce and customer base are good for business, said Atinuke Adediran, an associate professor of law at Fordham University who studies corporate governance and racial diversity.
“The rhetoric has been DEI is dead, but you have large, multinational shareholders upholding what companies are doing on DEI,” she said.
Read “DEI is winning with Costco, Apple and Levi’s shareholders” in CNN Business.