Individuals from underrepresented groups, including women and geneder minorities of all ethnicities and underrepresented minorities (URMs, including, e.g., African Americans, American Indians and Alaskan Natives, and Latinx persons) opt to leave technical fields at higher rates than their majority-group peers, resulting in a less diverse workforce at later career stages and comparatively few women and URMs in tenure-track positions or the equivalent. Patching this ``leaky pipeline" remains one of the foremost challenges in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, where a diverse workforce is critical for providing the varied approaches and perspectives that lead to continued innovation and discovery.
Carnegie Observatories organizes a series of talks and workshops around topics designed to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace and in the astronomical community more generally. These events are part of our DEI Action Plan, which was established following an internal review in March 2018.
Below, I have provided the materials for two discussions I led as part of Carnegie's DEI series.