The Post-Gazette explores the various aspects and needs for diversity in the workplace as the key to a successful economy.

Additional commentary is provided by area leaders in education and business: Ralph Bangs, associate director of the Center on Race and Social Problems, University of Pittsburgh, Larry E. Davis, dean of the School of Social Work and director of Center on Race and Social Problems, University of Pittsburgh, and Greg Babe, president and CEO of Bayer Corp., the U.S. subsidiary of German-based chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer AG. It is headquartered in Robinson.

• Sustainable Pittsburgh urges work force inclusion
The Pittsburgh region's ongoing challenges with diversity and inclusion received fresh attention last month with the publication of a report by Sustainable Pittsburgh, a nonprofit agency advocating for sustainable development.

• Women have come a long way in this world
Decades before personnel directors talked about diversity, Irene Hanson Frieze learned what it took to be the lone woman in a graduate psychology program at the University of California in Los Angeles.

• Diversity in the arts: All that jazz and innovation
As James Johnson Jr. walked down the hallway of the Afro-American Music Institute in Homewood, the chaotic sound of 40 young jazz pianists, trumpeters, saxophonists, drummers and singers warming up blared from every room.

• Commentary: The cultivation of a diverse society
Editor's note: An upcoming script for the award-winning AMC series "Mad Men" has inexplicably fallen into our hands. ...

• Event to focus on importance of inclusion
Next time, the key component will be 'Where has the difference been?' Next time, the key component will be 'Where has the difference been?'

• Commentary: Preventing job loss just one issue for LGBT community
It was just 40 years ago that the modern gay rights movement took hold.

• Commentary: Mentoring programs can build diversity in management
Approximately one of three Americans is now a person of color, that is, African-American, Hispanic or Asian.

• Commentary: Increase employment opportunities for persons with disabilities
While much of the attention in diversity efforts in business today is focused on race, religion and sexual orientation, providing opportunities for persons with disabilities is an important talent.

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