Even corporate giants like McDonald’s are struggling to attain gender parity within their organizations. For the first time in its history, McDonald’s is implementing diversity hiring quotas. They aim to “improve representation within leadership roles for both women and historically underrepresented groups.” McDonald’s hopes to achieve full gender parity by 2030. Is McDonald’s turning over a new leaf, or is this a quick fix to simply tick their diversity and inclusion boxes? Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
