Actionables for Issues that Matter
The National Automobile Dealers Association says it seeks to be diverse and have gender balance among its members.
But while it seems to be able recognize the organization’s problem, seizing opportunity & need to act is the challenge.
Now claims new awareness of imbalance & inequity is an “awakening” by doing “something” about racial & gender imbalance.
But still there are only 3 women yet 32 men on NADA Staff & Executive Committee. One black & one Latina.
The auto industry has and still is finding it difficult to deal with issues of women & race.
Women of color and women in general continue to struggle for empowerment & identity in the Automotive Industry.
There is still an imbalance in industry leadership, management, and ownership.
Highest ranked women of color in the industry leaving GM dramatizes the need for nonwhite women to lift themselves up & find open doors
There seems to be a need to keep diversity and inclusion in front of Corporate America. Some progress is being made.
The COVID19 pandemic has de-prioritized the focus on advocating & implementing changes to bring women and minority management to the forefront.
The action-ables from this in-depth and substantive article from the WSJ are solid moves for all of America to make, particularly the automotive sector.
This higher priority now needs higher leadership to take higher levels of action to achieve what is right.
