Reports : Center for Employment Equity : UMass Amherst

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Onboarding Young Workers in a Post-Pandemic World

May 2022

by Reyna Orellana & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

In this report we focus on what they see as working and what tends to fail when onboarding new young employees. Our goal is to help employers examine their hiring and onboarding practices, increase the speed at which new hires become productive team members, and reduce the high financial and emotional cost of turnover from failed hires.

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The tech industry talks about boosting diversity, but research shows little improvement

March 2022

by JooHee Han & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

With its rapid growth and abundance of high paying jobs, the tech industry is both an important and frustrating point of focus for advocates of workplace equity. Rather than focus on the industry as a whole, our research uses machine learning techniques and firm employment diversity for all U.S. tech firms with more than 100 employees. We track how the majority of firms continue to provide few opportunities for women and minorities in professional and managerial positions, while also pointing to the handful rapidly diversifying firms that might provide a template for addressing tech’s issues in employment equity.

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Is Tech Sector Diversity Improving?

January 2022

by JooHee Han & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

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Who Files Discrimination Charges?

August 2021

by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey & Carly McCann

In this article we ask who files discrimination charges, comparing charge rates on the bases of sex, race, national origin, age, and disability.

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Significant Figures: 63% of workers who file an EEOC discrimination complaint lose their jobs

July 2021

by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Carly McCann & J. D. Swerzenski

People who experience sex discrimination, race discrimination and other forms of discrimination at work aren’t getting much protection from the laws designed to shield them from it.

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Pregnancy Discrimination in the Workplace

May 2021

by Carly McCann & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

Despite laws intended to end workplace pregnancy discrimination, thousands of women face employer discrimination related to their pregnancies every year. This is true for women in low wage physically demanding occupations, high wage occupations, and even workplaces dedicated to supporting women.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Biden/Harris Transition White Paper

February 2021

by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, M.V. Lee Badgett, & Fidan Kurtulus

This transition memo begins with a review of the social science literature on EEO progress, followed by what we know about the efficacy of regulatory efforts at OFCCP, EEOC, and in the courts.

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