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16Career Advice for You
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
GET REAL-WORLD ANSWERS FROM 8 NATIONAL EXPERTS
Read the scenarios (or watch them and take our quiz at
www.DiversityInc.com/careerscenarios). Go to www.DiversityInc.
com/experts to see what our experts advise, or read their in-depth
answers here.
30 Career Advice From a Black CEO
Ronald A. Williams, chairman, CEO and president of
Aetna, tells you how to make sure your company is welcoming to
ALL employees. He also gives you personal insights into his own
recipe for success.
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34The White-Male Question: Are You a Victim of
‘Reverse Discrimination’?
Is there a legal definition for this? Are white men getting the short
end of the stick when affirmative-action programs help women and
blacks, Latinos and Native Americans?
40 Double Standard
Can YOU Use the N-Word?
It’s been symbolically buried as white people using it have been
denounced, yet rappers use it excessively. Who decides who can use
this politically charged word and who can’t?
46 5 Job-Interview Warning Signs
Do you really want to work there?
68 Lifting the Secular Veil
A Canadian woman tells you how fundamentalist Muslim
women in Yemen learned to understand each other.
departments
12 Black History Month
A column from Dr. Julianne
Malveaux, president of Bennett
College for Women
15 Spotlight!
Blair Underwood’s “ 5 Rules
for Success”
58 Best of DiversityInc.com
64 Career Advice
How to Handle Your Boss
70 Inside View
Attorney Weldon Latham on
the value of employee-resource groups
80 Taking Bennett College
to the Next Level
82 Presidential-Politics
Roundup: Celebrity
Endorsements
84 Leadership
Cleveland Clinic’s James Blazar
American Express’ Melinda Wolfe
Sphinx’s Aaron Dworkin
Sikorsky Aircraft’s Dan Libertino
88 People & Places
Comcast’s Andrea Agnew
Dell’s Gilbert F. Casellas
94 Ask the White Guy
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