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Quodlibetical, a. - Not restrained to a particular subject; discussed for curiousity or entertainment
Quahog, n. A large species of clam.
The above more or less explains most of my livejournal entries. Except for possibly this one, which is more about curiousity and not so much on the entertainment.
Today, we did diversity training. I've done this several times now - twice in companies, at least three times in school, plus had a legal class on it. And had a school chum do a sociological study on it. We both majored in English Lit. She minored in sociology, I minored in cultural anthropology. We had all sorts of interesting debates about minorities and diversity in school. She focused on statistical makeup, I focused on getting to know people and understand different religions and cultures. Basically one was quantitative analysis and the other qualitative analysis. As a result, her conclusion was that our college was woefully non-diverse and mine was it was wonderfully diverse.
Anywho. In the class we took this little statistics quiz and here's some interesting stats that they threw at us. (For the purposes of the stat's below, nation = US. This isn't global.)
1. 75% of all working-age American Women are in the labor market. 47.6% comprise the labor pool of the NYC and Long Island area. 15.5% are in my company.
2. Minorities comprise 48% of the labor pool of Long Island and New York City area.
3. The average age of the nation's workforce is 40 and projected to rise to 41 by the year 2010.
4. Immigrants makeup 14.4 % of Long Island's population. (Yes, I thought it was more than that too.)
5. 10% of the percentage of the nation's population is gay, lesbian or bi-sexual.
6. 20% of America's workforce is disabled as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
7. There are 54 million persons with disabilities in the US.
8. 35.6% of all cases filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2008 alleged discrimination/harrassment based on 1) race (35.6 %), 2)retailation (34.3%) and 3) sexual harrassment/gender bias (29.7%)
9. 4.6% of all cases filed with the EEOC in 2008 were found to have some legal merit.
( somewhat rambling bit about the class and somewhat personal. )
Quahog, n. A large species of clam.
The above more or less explains most of my livejournal entries. Except for possibly this one, which is more about curiousity and not so much on the entertainment.
Today, we did diversity training. I've done this several times now - twice in companies, at least three times in school, plus had a legal class on it. And had a school chum do a sociological study on it. We both majored in English Lit. She minored in sociology, I minored in cultural anthropology. We had all sorts of interesting debates about minorities and diversity in school. She focused on statistical makeup, I focused on getting to know people and understand different religions and cultures. Basically one was quantitative analysis and the other qualitative analysis. As a result, her conclusion was that our college was woefully non-diverse and mine was it was wonderfully diverse.
Anywho. In the class we took this little statistics quiz and here's some interesting stats that they threw at us. (For the purposes of the stat's below, nation = US. This isn't global.)
1. 75% of all working-age American Women are in the labor market. 47.6% comprise the labor pool of the NYC and Long Island area. 15.5% are in my company.
2. Minorities comprise 48% of the labor pool of Long Island and New York City area.
3. The average age of the nation's workforce is 40 and projected to rise to 41 by the year 2010.
4. Immigrants makeup 14.4 % of Long Island's population. (Yes, I thought it was more than that too.)
5. 10% of the percentage of the nation's population is gay, lesbian or bi-sexual.
6. 20% of America's workforce is disabled as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
7. There are 54 million persons with disabilities in the US.
8. 35.6% of all cases filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2008 alleged discrimination/harrassment based on 1) race (35.6 %), 2)retailation (34.3%) and 3) sexual harrassment/gender bias (29.7%)
9. 4.6% of all cases filed with the EEOC in 2008 were found to have some legal merit.
( somewhat rambling bit about the class and somewhat personal. )