Giving Notice: Why the Best and the Brightest Leave the Workplace and How You Can Help Them Stay

10.7. Who Is Responsible?

All of our hands are a bit smudged; however, those in power (business managers, owners, and CEOs) hold the bulk of the responsibility for painting a glossy finish of "diversity" on their organizations while allowing barriers and bias to continue. But those with less power, the schoolteachers, medical providers, counselors, and landlords who place limits on people based on how they look or where they come from, are also to blame. And employees who face discrimination themselves, who don't speak up, who turn on each other and carry on the same practices when they clamber past others, are also at fault. Diversity trainers with their sixty-minute lessons, the HR departments focused on making problems go away, and the lawyers ...