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How to Push for Policy Changes at Your Company

Women at Work

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The Curb Cut Effect in the DEI Space

There's a term for some of what you're talking about in the DEI space called the curb cut effect. It describes how if you design for the most marginalized, you create these cascading benefits that can benefit people who you might not have even thought about. The ADA wasn't passed out of consideration for parents, bikers, joggers, and delivery people. And we don't have to look far to find ways in which DEI efforts or equity efforts or unionizing efforts really benefit way more people than just a small population.

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