{"id":33634,"date":"2025-02-18T10:33:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/to-the-ceos-whove-joined-trumps-fight-against-diversity-i-say-this-youre-making-a-big-mistake-stefan-stern\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T10:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:33:05","slug":"to-the-ceos-whove-joined-trumps-fight-against-diversity-i-say-this-youre-making-a-big-mistake-stefan-stern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/to-the-ceos-whove-joined-trumps-fight-against-diversity-i-say-this-youre-making-a-big-mistake-stefan-stern\/","title":{"rendered":"To the CEOs who\u2019ve joined Trump\u2019s fight against diversity, I say this: you\u2019re making a big mistake | Stefan Stern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ditching DEI initiatives will curry favour in the Oval Office. It will also alienate the workforces bosses rely on<\/p>\n<p>The mask has slipped and the gloves are off. A company which in 2022 boasted that it had <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2022\/07\/metas-diversity-report-2022\/\">exceeded its target<\/a>, \u201cspending $1.26 billion with US certified diverse suppliers\u201d, is now ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2025\/feb\/11\/dei-meta-facebook\">That company is Meta<\/a> (formerly known as Facebook), whose chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/10\/meta-ending-dei-program\">DEI dismantling<\/a> shortly before he had a prominent seat at Donald Trump\u2019s recent inauguration. Perhaps from that privileged spot he was able to imbibe some of the \u201cmasculine energy\u201d he says he wants to see at work.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Stern is co-author of Myths of Management and the former director of the High Pay Centre. His latest book is Fair or Foul: the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/feb\/18\/ceo-donald-trump-anti-diversity-agenda-dei-initiatives-oval-office-workforce\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ditching DEI initiatives will curry favour in the Oval Office. It will also alienate the workforces bosses rely on The mask has slipped and the gloves are off. A company which in 2022 boasted that it had exceeded its target, \u201cspending $1.26 billion with US certified diverse suppliers\u201d, is now ending diversity, equity and inclusion &#8230; <a title=\"To the CEOs who\u2019ve joined Trump\u2019s fight against diversity, I say this: you\u2019re making a big mistake | Stefan Stern\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/to-the-ceos-whove-joined-trumps-fight-against-diversity-i-say-this-youre-making-a-big-mistake-stefan-stern\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about To the CEOs who\u2019ve joined Trump\u2019s fight against diversity, I say this: you\u2019re making a big mistake | Stefan Stern\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}