Level playing field or striking out equality?
For over 100 years, the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) has been striving to maximize opportunities for students to engage in "transformative relationships with coaches and teammates in which their character and emotional maturity is developed to empower them to be effective in life." But has the IHSAA struck out in trying to achie ...
Victory : Court rules gender quota unconstitutional
Your gender shouldn't disqualify you from a public position: That's the key takeaway from Pacific Legal Foundation's district court victory in Hurley v. Gast in Iowa. In the late 1980s, the Iowa state legislature passed several bills requiring state boards and commissions to be gender balanced. The move was part of a larger, worldwide push t ...
Center Square : Race-conscious diversity training has negative consequences for employees and the public
Many employers are on a mission to incorporate "diversity," "equity," and "inclusion" into every aspect of their daily operations — some going so far as to expend significant resources to develop a "DEI" team whose sole aim is to deeply entrench these concepts within the workplace. But what do these terms mean, and how are human resources depa ...
The city worker v. Seattle
When Joshua Diemert began his employment with the City of Seattle, he was looking forward to a fresh start. But as time passed, he began to dread going to work. Tensions were running high in the office. At one point, a colleague told others they should "get a guy to swing by when Josh is in the restroom and beat him bloody." He watched cowork ...